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edh|ɛð|
Also eth.
Name of the Anglo-Saxon and Old Icelandic letter, or the phonetic symbol, ð (‘crossed d’).
1846E. J. Vernon Guide Anglo-Saxon Tongue i. 4 đ (eth) our soft th, as in other. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 612/2 In order to express the corresponding sonant (heard in ‘that’, and confusedly denoted by the same compound th) a stroke was drawn across the simple d (ð), and the new letter was called edh. 1965C. Barber Flux of Language vii. 130 The Old English scribes confused matters a little by using two symbols,..‘thorn’, and..‘eth’..indiscriminately. 1969English Studies Suppl. p. ii, Conybeare..made no use of thorn, Thk [i.e. Thorkelin] none of eth in transcription, though both sometimes wrote th as in modern English. |