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Eth
Letter of the Latin alphabet; used in Icelandic, Faroese, and Old English / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Edh" redirects here. For other uses, see Eth (disambiguation) and Edh (disambiguation).
"Ð" redirects here. Not to be confused with D with stroke.
For technical reasons, ":-D" redirects here. For the keyboard symbol, see Emoticon.
Eth (/ɛð/ edh, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English,[1] is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian.
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and logographic |
Language of origin | Old English Old Norse |
Sound values | [ð] [θ] [ð̠] /ˈɛð/ |
In Unicode | U+00D0, U+00F0 |
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Time period | ~800 to present |
Sisters | None |
Transliterations | d |
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Associated graphs | th, dh |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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are used here, see this page.![Lower case and upper case of Eth (⟨Ð⟩, ⟨ð⟩ expressed by a sans serif single-stroke-width font and a serif variable-stroke-width font](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Latin_letter_%C3%90.svg/640px-Latin_letter_%C3%90.svg.png)
It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with ⟨dh⟩, and later ⟨d⟩.
It is often transliterated as ⟨d⟩.
The lowercase version has been adopted to represent a voiced dental fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet.