Wp/enm/Wynn

Wynn or wyn (Ƿ ƿ) was a lettre of þe old englissch abece, wher hit was iused to shewen þe icompressed labial–velar approximant son /w/. Wyn is icvmen of þe run staf wynn þat bitokned þat ilke son.

Hit wurþ al þes þe lesse emploied bitwix abowten anno dominj mcl and mccc, and siþen wryteres ne writen hit nat, bot hi writen in his loþ þe moderne lettre "w" (þat ys frum uu or vv in Latin), or whilon "u", "v", "vv" or "uu"; ween is þat leevre writeres uurþen to emploien "w" or "uu" for resovn þat "ƿ" was oft iwriten wel neeȝ þe lettres "y", "þ", "h" and "p".