Eth
Letter of the Latin alphabet; used in Icelandic, Faroese, and Old English / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Eth (disambiguation). "Edh" redirects here. For other uses, see Edh (disambiguation). "Ð" redirects here. Not to be confused with D with stroke.
Eth (/ɛð/ edh, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English,[1] is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian.
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and logographic |
Language of origin | Old English Old Norse |
Phonetic usage | [ð] [θ] [ð̠] /ˈɛð/ |
Unicode codepoint | U+00D0, U+00F0 |
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Time period | ~800 to present |
Sisters | None |
Transliteration equivalents | d |
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Other letters commonly used with | th, dh |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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This page uses orthographic and related notations. For the notations
⟨ ⟩
, / /
and [ ]
used in this article, see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters.It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with ⟨dh⟩, and later ⟨d⟩.
It is often transliterated as ⟨d⟩.
The lowercase version has been adopted to represent a voiced dental fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet.