单词 | edh |
释义 | edhn. Name of the Anglo-Saxon and Old Icelandic letter, or the phonetic symbol, ð (‘crossed d’). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > others Bc1000 Dc1000 ellc1000 Fc1000 Sc1000 yogha1300 Pa1398 ess1540 tee1610 alif1727 cue1755 em1793 en1793 dee1795 double U1841 edh1846 wye1857 vee1883 gee1926 nut1940 kay1959 at sign1977 1846 E. J. Vernon Guide Anglo-Saxon Tongue i. 4 đ (eth) our soft th, as in other. 1875 Encycl. 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. 1965 C. Barber Flux of Lang. vii. 130 The Old English scribes confused matters a little by using two symbols,..‘thorn’, and..‘eth’..indiscriminately. 1969 Eng. Stud. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1846 |
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