Wyn, Wynn (?), n. Also Wen (?) . [AS. wEn.]

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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