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Letter of the Old English alphabet
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Ƿ
Ƿ ƿ
(See below)
Usage
Writing system
Futhorc
Type
Alphabetic and Logographic
Language of origin
Old English
Phonetic usage
[w] /wɪn/
Unicode codepoint
U+01F7, U+01BF
History
Development
ᚹ
Ƿ ƿ
Time period
~700 to ~1100
Descendants
Ꝩ ꝩ
Sisters
Ꝩ ꝩ
Transliteration equivalents
w
Variations
(See below)
Other
Other letters commonly used with
w
Writing direction
Left-to-right
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Name
Proto-Germanic
Old English
*Wunjō
Wynn
"joy"
Shape
Elder Futhark
Futhorc
Unicode
ᚹ
U+16B9
Transliteration
w
Transcription
w
IPA
[w]
Position in rune-row
8
Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript (830s): the text reads ƿiges ƿarne.Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore: her sƿutelað seo gecƿydrædnes ðe
Wynn or wyn[1] (Ƿ ƿ; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿen, and ƿin) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound /w/.
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