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Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...
for an œ ~ oe ~ e in a closed syllable anywhere as long as it bears some stress (so this overlaps with the preceding category), as in œstrogenic, œstrogen, and œstrus; for an œ ~ oe ~ e in a primary-stressed syllable that does not lie within the final two syllables of the word (except for words like cœliac and Mœsia(n), see above).
In Volapük, ö can be written as oy, but never as oe. In Romagnol, ö is used to represent [ɔə~ɔː], e.g. cöt [kɔət~kɔːt] "cooked". In the Seneca language, ö is used to represent [ɔ̃], a back mid rounded nasalized vowel. In Swedish, the letter ö is also used as the one-letter word for an island, which is not to be mixed with the ...
[41] This is a reverse of the typical rule, where British spelling uses the ae/oe and American spelling simply uses e. Words that can be spelled either way in British English include chamaeleon, encyclopaedia, homoeopathy, mediaeval (a minor variant in both AmE and BrE [42] [43] [44]), foetid and foetus.
The spelling indicates the insertion of /ᵻ/ before the /z/ in the spelling - es , but does not indicate the devoiced /s/ distinctly from the unaffected /z/ in the spelling - s . The abstract representation of words as indicated by the orthography can be considered advantageous since it makes etymological relationships more apparent to English ...
OE mētan → ME meete(n) → LME /meːt/ → NE meet /miːt/ OE wicu → ME weeke → LME /weːk/ → NE week /wiːk/ OE nama → ME nāme → LME /næːm/ → NE name /neɪ̯m/ In the last two examples, the stressed vowel was affected by open-syllable lengthening.
Spectrogram of [ø]. The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ø , a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese, which sometimes use the letter to represent the sound.
Spelling Pronunciation Short vowels o e etc. /o e/ etc. Short nasal vowels ǫ ę etc. /õ ẽ/ etc. Long vowels ō ē etc. /oː eː/ etc. Long nasal vowels ǭ ę̄ etc. /õː ẽː/ etc. Overlong vowels ô ê /oːː eːː/ Overlong nasal vowels ǫ̂ ę̂ /õːː ẽːː/ "Long" diphthongs ēa ēo īo īe /æːɑ eːo iːu iːy/ "Short ...