enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Old English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English

    Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc ... The sounds enclosed in parentheses in the chart above are not considered to be phonemes: ... A common scribal abbreviation was a ...

  3. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation

    Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse. In modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanical) sigla are the symbols used to indicate the source manuscript (e.g. variations in text between ...

  4. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_phonology

    Old English did possess a voiced velar fricative sound [ɣ], which developed from Proto-Germanic *ɡ, but [ɣ] is usually analyzed as a separate phoneme from /x/: the sounds were normally distinguished in spelling, with [ɣ] written as g and /x/ as h , although some unetymological interchange of these spellings occurs, especially in word-final ...

  5. Old English grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar

    The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected.As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological system similar to that of the Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining many of the inflections thought to have been common in Proto-Indo-European and also including constructions characteristic of the Germanic daughter languages such as ...

  6. Help:IPA/Old English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Old_English

    Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, was an early form of English in medieval England. It is different from Early Modern English, the language of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, and from Middle English, the language of Geoffrey Chaucer. See Old English phonology for more detail on the sounds of Old English.

  7. List of classical abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_classical_abbreviations

    O.S. – Old Style (The Julian calendar date. New Year's Day was held on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, or “Lady Day”. Although the Roman Catholic church adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, England / Britain, a Protestant nation, didn't adopt it until 1752.) O.T. – Old Testament

  8. Phonological history of Old English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of...

    Forms in italics denote either Old English words as they appear in spelling or reconstructed forms of various sorts. Where phonemic ambiguity occurs in Old English spelling, extra diacritics are used (ċ, ġ, ā, ǣ, ē, ī, ō, ū, ȳ). Forms between /slashes/ or [brackets] indicate, respectively, broad or narrow pronunciation

  9. Thorn (letter) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

    This sound was regularly realised in Old English as the voiced fricative [ð] between voiced sounds, but either letter could be used to write it; the modern use of [ð] in phonetic alphabets is not the same as the Old English orthographic use. A thorn with the ascender crossed was a popular abbreviation for the word that.