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Definition of Æ in English: Æ(also æ) noun A letter used in Old English to represent a vowel intermediate between a and e and from the 16th century onwards used in Latin or Latinized Greek words, representing an original diphthong ae or ai. See also ash Example sentencesExamples - To represent sounds not found in the Irish and Latin languages, the monks had to adapt versions of the Runic alphabet for the letters w, þ, ð, and æ.
- They used the letter æ, which we do not use.
- In addition, because the Roman alphabet had no letters to correspond with certain Old English sounds, additional letters were added: "æ", "þ", and "ð".
- The letter æ was extraneous in even the earliest texts because the sound /æ/ had disappeared from Germanic languages by the 3rd century CE, yet it existed in the alphabet (that is, it would always appear in a list of all the letters).
- Furthermore the examples above show that Old English uses the letters æ and þ that are not used in Modern English anymore.
Definition of Æ in US English: Æ(also æ) noun A letter used in Old English to represent either a long sound like that in modern American English hair or the short vowel of hat; currently used in some phonetic alphabets to represent the vowel of hat, which is symbolized in this dictionary by /a/. See also ash Example sentencesExamples - Furthermore the examples above show that Old English uses the letters æ and þ that are not used in Modern English anymore.
- To represent sounds not found in the Irish and Latin languages, the monks had to adapt versions of the Runic alphabet for the letters w, þ, ð, and æ.
- The letter æ was extraneous in even the earliest texts because the sound /æ/ had disappeared from Germanic languages by the 3rd century CE, yet it existed in the alphabet (that is, it would always appear in a list of all the letters).
- In addition, because the Roman alphabet had no letters to correspond with certain Old English sounds, additional letters were added: "æ", "þ", and "ð".
- They used the letter æ, which we do not use.
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