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Wynn ( ?, ?, also called wen), is one which was used in the alphabet and of .

Synopsis

Linguistics

? was used to transcribe the sound [ W ] in and in .

History

The letter? comes from ? (wynn, or wunjo). It was borrowed in order to represent the sound [ W ], the letter W being a more recent invention. It was gradually replaced by the two letters "uu", also replaced later by the form "W".

Data-processing representation

The letter? have the representations following:

  • Capital? : U+01F7 ;
  • Tiny? : U+01BF ;
  • Rune? : U+16B9.

See too

 

  > French to English > fr.wikipedia.org (Machine translated into English)