whynne

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

qwynne, wynne, qwyne, whyn

Etymology edit

Of North Germanic origin, borrowed from Old Norse hvein (the source of modern Swedish ven (“bentgrass”)), from Proto-Germanic *hwin-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoi-no-, referring to its tall, sharp stalks.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /hwin/
(dialectal) IPA^(key): /win/, /xwin/

Noun edit

whynne (plural whynnes)

Gorse or a similar plant.

Descendants edit

English: whin
Scots: whin

References edit

“whin, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hwaino”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261

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