wen

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wen1

▶noun

• 1 a boil or other swelling or growth on the skin, especially a sebaceous cyst.

• 2 archaic a very large or overcrowded city.

– origin OE wen(n), of unknown origin; cf. Low Ger. wehne ‘tumour, wart’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wen2 (also wyn)

▶noun a runic letter, used in Old and Middle English, later replaced by w.

– origin OE, lit. ‘joy’; so named because it is the first letter of this word.