wynn
Old English
noun
Definitions
- joy, delight
- the runic character
- the letter wynnwynn: Ƿ, ƿ (/w/)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *wunjō (joy, delight, pleasure, lust, desire) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (love, wish, desire, strive, win, strive for, seek, wish for, succeed, pursue).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wenh₁-
Gloss
love, wish, desire, strive, win, strive for, seek, wish for, succeed, pursue
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
欲
Emoji
❤️ 🏩 👨❤️👨 👩❤️👨 👩❤️👩 👰♀️ 💋 💌 💑 💒 💓 💕 💖 💗 💘 💝 😍 😘 😚 😻 🤟 🤰 🤱 🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Gwendolen English
- Venus English
- Winston English
- enjoy English
- joy English
- joyance English
- joyant English
- joydom English
- joyful English
- joygasm English
- joyhood English
- joyish English
- joyless English
- joylike English
- joyness English
- joypad English
- joypop English
- joyride English
- joysome English
- joystick English
- killjoy English
- overjoy English
- rejoy English
- unjoy English
- winne English
- wont English
- wynn English
- Venerivagus Latin
- Venus Latin
- capillus Veneris Latin
- conchula Latin
- venereus Latin
- veneror Latin
- venia Latin
- vinnulus Latin
- vēnārī Latin
- vēnātiōnem Latin
- Venus German
- Wonne German
- Wonneproppen German
- wonnetrunken German
- Venere Italian
- Vénus French
- vénérien French
- *wen- Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁-es-no- Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁is Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁ostos Proto-Indo-European
- *weyh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wn̥h₁yeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wn̥h₁yeh₂, *wenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wénh₁-os Proto-Indo-European
- *wénh₁-os-teh₂ts Proto-Indo-European
- *wénh₁osteh₂ts Proto-Indo-European
- *Balþawiniz Proto-Germanic
- *wanjaną Proto-Germanic
- *winiz Proto-Germanic
- *winjō Proto-Germanic
- *winnaną Proto-Germanic
- *wunaną, *wunēną, *wunajaną Proto-Germanic
- *wundrą Proto-Germanic
- *wundrōną Proto-Germanic
- *wunilīkaz Proto-Germanic
- *wunjō Proto-Germanic
- *wunskijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wunskō Proto-Germanic
- *wunô Proto-Germanic
- *wunāną Proto-Germanic
- *wēniz Proto-Germanic
- Goldwine Old English
- eald Old English
- eþelwynn Old English
- full Old English
- leodwynn Old English
- lēod Old English
- unwynsum Old English
- wine Old English
- winemæg Old English
- winescipe Old English
- wynful Old English
- wynfæst Old English
- wynleas Old English
- wynlic Old English
- wynsum Old English
- wynsumness Old English
- ēþel Old English
- वन् Sanskrit
- Venus Middle English
- joye Middle English
- venus Middle English
- wine Middle English
- winne Middle English
- wynly Middle English
- wynne Middle English
- wynsom Middle English
- Fianna Fáil Irish
- fiann Irish
- fine Irish
- yndi Old Norse
- Venus Icelandic
- Gwendolen Welsh
- Gwenfrewi Welsh
- Tegwen Welsh
- gwen Welsh
- heulwen Welsh
- wunna Old High German
- derbfine Old Irish
- fine Old Irish
- fingal Old Irish
- fíann Old Irish
- wunne Middle High German
- uri Albanian
- *wunnju gmw-pro
- *wunnjusam gmw-pro
- ונוס Hebrew (modern)
- *weniyā Proto-Celtic
- *wēnos Proto-Celtic
- wunnia Old Saxon
- 베누스 Korean
- *weneznom Proto-Italic
- *wenos Proto-Italic
- *un- Proto-Albanian