noun🔗ShareBuchstabe WynnA letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w."In Old English texts, you'll often see the letter "wynn" used where we would now write "w" in words like "will" and "wolf." "In altenglischen Texten sieht man oft den Buchstaben „wynn“ dort, wo wir heute „w“ in Wörtern wie „will“ und „wolf“ schreiben würden.languagewritinglinguisticshistoryphoneticswordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareHolztransporter, WagenA kind of timber truck, or carriage."The lumber company used a wynn to haul the freshly cut logs from the forest to the sawmill. "Die Holzfirma benutzte einen Holztransporter, um die frisch geschnittenen Baumstämme aus dem Wald zum Sägewerk zu transportieren.vehiclemachineindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading