Translingual - Letter

æ lower case (upper case Æ)

1. Ligature from the letters a and e.

Symbol

Wikipedia

æ

1. (IPA) near-open front unrounded vowel

See also

• (Latin script):

English - Symbol

æ lower case (upper case Æ)

1. (chiefly dated or linguistic) A ligature of vowels a and e, called ash.

Usage notes

• Mostly used for words of either Ancient Greek or Latin origin, though also used when referencing Old English texts or using recently derived Old English loanwords.
• Uncommon in modern times except in linguistic use.
• Often absent in American English (reduced to e) whenever it has the sound /ɛ/ (SAMPA /pt/) or /iː/ (SAMPA /i:/), but sometimes retained (in this form, or as ae) when it has a different sound, as in formulæ/formulae.

English - See Also

• ash
• œ
• Appendix:English pronunciation

English - Anagrams

• EA, Ea, ea, ea.

Danish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛː/, [ɛːˀ]

Danish - Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

1. Antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.

Inflection

See also

• (Latin script letters) bogstav; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz, Ææ, Øø, Åå

Faroese - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛa/
• Homophones: a, A

Faroese - Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) bókstavur; Aa, Áá, Bb, Dd, Ðð, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Íí, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Óó, Pp, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Úú, Vv, Yy, Ýý, Ææ, Øø

German - Symbol

æ (lower case, upper case Æ)

1. (obsolete) Vowel borrowed from Latin. Succeeded by ä.

Icelandic - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai̯/

Icelandic - Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

1. Penultimate letter of the Icelandic alphabet.

Icelandic - Interjection

æ

1. ah!, oh!, alas!
2. ouch!, ow!

Icelandic - Adverb

æ

1. always, forever

Synonyms

• ætíð
• um aldur og ævi

Derived terms

• sí og æ ("always, for ever and ever")

Norwegian - Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /æː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /æː/, /æ/

Norwegian - Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

1. Antepenultimate letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Norwegian - Pronoun

æ

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)(dialectal, mostly found in Trøndelag, northern Norway, and parts of western and southern Norway).

Old English - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æː/

Old English - Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

1. Æ, letter of the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) alphabet, listed in 24th and final position by Byrhtferð (1011). Called æsc "ash tree" after the Anglo-Saxon ᚫ rune.

Old English - Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *aiwō, *aiwaz (“law”), from Proto-Indo-European *oiw- (“custom, tradition, law”). Cognate with Old Saxon êo, Ol Frisian ewa, êwe, ê, â, Old German êwa, êha, êa, ê (German Ehe).

Alternative forms

• ǣw

Noun

ǣ

Old English - Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ahwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Cognate with Old Frisian â, ê, Old Norse á, Old Saxon and Old High German aha, and Gothic ahwa; and with Latin aqua.

Alternative forms

• ēa

Noun

ǣ

Old Norse - Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiwi (“forever”). Cognate with Old English ā, āwa, ǣ, Old Saxon eo, io, ia, Old High German eo, io.

Old Norse - Adverb

æ (not comparable)

1. ever, at any time

Descendants

• Icelandic: æ

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