Wynning
Wynning is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of wyn (joy) and -ing (one possessed of the quality of).
Variants:
Wonnı [Sir Henry James 1862 Domesday book; facsimile of the part relating to Herefordshire, page xi].
Wonni [Olof von Feilitzen 1937 The Pre-conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, page 416].
Wunning [John Kemble 1846 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 4: 313].
Wynning [Olof von Feilitzen 1937 The Pre-conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, page 428].
Stem:
wynn = joy [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 569].
Suffix:
-ing: a suffix forming derivative masculine substantives, with the sense of ‘one belonging to’ or ‘of the kind of’, hence ‘one possessed of the quality of’ [James Murray 1901 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 5 (I, J, K): 282].
Usage:
The form Wunning appears in a witness list: “Isaac messepreóst, and Bleðcuf messepreóst, and Wunning messepreóst, and Wulfgér messepreóst, and Grifiuð messepreóst, and Noe messepreóst, and Wurðicið messepreóst, and Æilsig diacon, and Maccos, and Teðion Modredis sunu, and Kynilm, and Beórláf, and Dirling, and Gratcant, and Talan” (“Isaac the masspriest, Bleðcuf the masspriest, Wunning the masspriest, Wulfgér the masspriest, Grifiuð the masspriest, Noe the masspriest, Wurðicið the masspriest, and Ælfsige the deacon, and Maccos, and Teðion Modred’s son, and Cynehelm, Beórláf, Dirling, Gratcant and Talan”) [John Kemble 1849 The Saxons in England, 1st edition, 1: 502].
