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.

单词	Æ
释义	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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