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Former letter of the English, German, Sorbian, and Latvian alphabets Ꟊ ꟊ S with short stroke overlay Used for tau gallicum in Gaulish [10] S with diagonal stroke Used for Cupeño and Luiseño [30] Ꞅ ꞅ Insular S Variant of s [9] [3] Ƨ: Reversed S (Tone two) A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its ...
words fly away, writings remain: verbatim: word for word: The phrase refers to perfect transcription or quotation. verbatim et literatim: word for word and letter by letter: verbi divini minister: servant of the Divine Word: A phrase denoting a priest. Cf. "Verbum Dei" infra. verbi gratia (v. gr. or v. g.) for example: Literally, "for the sake ...
It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter W (originally a ligature of two V s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the Germanic languages which did not exist in medieval Latin, and only after the Renaissance did the convention of treating I and U as vowels, and J and V as consonants, become established.
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples vac-empty: Latin: vacare: evacuate, vacancy, vacant, vacate, vacation, vacuous, vacuum vacc-
The a-e ligature ash (Æ æ) was adopted as a letter in its own right, named after a futhorc rune æsc. In very early Old English the o-e ligature ethel (Œ œ) also appeared as a distinct letter, likewise named after a rune, œðel. [citation needed] Additionally, the v–v or u-u ligature double-u (W w) was in use.
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter V. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
U u : Latin letter u , originally the same letter as v W w : Latin letter w , descended from u Ỽ ỽ : Middle Welsh v v with diacritics: Ṽ ṽ Ṿ ṿ Ʋ ʋ ᶌ [9] IPA-specific symbols related to v : ⱱ ʋ ᶹ : Modifier letter small v with hook is used in phonetic transcription [9] 𐞰 : Modifier letter small v with right hook is a ...
A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words.