In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WYNN
Etymology
Proper noun
Wynn (plural Wynns)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wynn is the 1,203rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 29,417 individuals. Wynn is most common among White (54.24%) and Black (39.05%) individuals.
Etymology 1
Noun
wynn (plural wynns)
A 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.
Etymology 2
Noun
wynn (plural wynns)
A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
Source: Wiktionary
Wyn, Wynn, n. Also Wen. [AS. wen.]
Definition: One of the runes adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w.
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Wynn, n.
Definition: A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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