Wyn

Wyn
Wyn Wyn, Wynn Wynn, n. Also Wen Wen [AS. w[=e]n.] One of the runes (?) adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.

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