W

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🇩🇪 kein französisches Wort , 🇪🇸 no es una palabra francesa , 🇮🇹 non è una parola francese , 🇵🇹 não é uma palavra francesa , 🇨🇳 字母w , 🇯🇵 フランス語の単語ではない , 🇰🇷 프랑스어가 아닌 단어 , 🇸🇦 ليس كلمة فرنسية , 🇮🇳 फ्रेंच शब्द नहीं है

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Etymology

The letter **w** comes from the Germanic rune *wynn* (Proto‑Germanic *wynn), a symbol for the /w/ sound that was later written as the double‑u (uu) in the Latin alphabet. As Latin had no native /w/, the digraph evolved into the single letter “w” in Germanic languages, and French adopted it only for borrowed words. Thus, “w” in French is a loan from Germanic, originally a phonetic adaptation of a sound absent in classical Latin.

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