Name
Hwin's name brings to mind the word "whinny", a sound that horses make. (Ford 2005, p. 240) But primarily, "Hwin" is a contraction of "Hwinhynym",which, spelled "Houyhnhnm" is the name of the race of noble horses from Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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