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Icelandic is the only living language to keep the letter thorn. Iin Icelandic, þ is pronounced þoddn, or þorn. The letter is the 30th in the Icelandic alphabet, modelled after Old Norse alphabet in the 19th century; it is transliterated to th when it cannot be reproduced [8] and never appears
The letters Eth ( ð , capital Ð ), transliterated as d , and Thorn ( þ , capital Þ ), transliterated as th , are widely used in the Icelandic language. Eth is also used in Faroese and Elfdalian , while thorn was used in many historical languages such as Old English .
A sample of Icelandic handwriting with some instances of lowercase ð clearly visible: in the words Borðum, við and niður. Also visible is a thorn in the word því . In Icelandic, ð , called "eð", represents an alveolar non-sibilant fricative, voiced [ ð̠ ] intervocalically and word-finally, and voiceless [ θ̠ ] otherwise, which form ...
The Icelandic alphabet is notable for its retention of three old letters that no longer exist in the English alphabet: Þ, þ (þorn, modern English "thorn"), Ð, ð (eð, anglicised as "eth" or "edh") and Æ, æ (æsc, anglicised as "ash" or "asc"), with þ and ð representing the voiceless and voiced "th" sounds (as in English thin and this ...
The rune ᚦ is called Thurs (Old Norse Þurs, a type of entity, from a reconstructed Common Germanic *Þurisaz) in the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems.In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem it is called thorn, whence the name of the letter þ derived.
Thorn (letter) (Þ, þ), a letter of the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets; Thorn (rune) (ᚦ), or Thurisaz, a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc; Music. Performers
Thorn Old English, Icelandic ꟓ Double thorn Used in Ormulum [18] Ƿ ƿ: Wynn Old English ꟕ Double wynn Used in Ormulum [18] Ꝩ ꝩ Vend Medieval Nordic phoneme /v/ or /u/ [9] Ꝫ ꝫ Et Medieval abbreviation [9] Ꝭ ꝭ Is Ꝯ ꝯ Con ꝰ Us ꝸ Um Ꜫ ꜫ Tresillo Mayan ejective uvular stop /qʼ/ Ꜭ ꜭ Cuatrillo Mayan ejective velar ...
The letter eth ð was an alteration of Latin d , and the runic letters thorn þ and wynn ƿ are borrowings from futhorc. Also used was a symbol for the conjunction and , a character similar to the number seven ( ⁊ , called ond or a Tironian et ) which is still used in Irish and Scottish Gaelic , and a symbol for the relative pronoun þæt , a ...