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In Old English, k and g were not silent when preceding n . Cognates in other Germanic languages show that the k was probably a voiceless velar plosive in Proto-Germanic. For example, the initial k is not silent in words such as German Knecht which is a cognate of knight, Knoten which is a cognate of knot, etc.
Closed insular G Ormulum [18] /g/ Ɡ ɡ ᶢ Script G IPA [8] /g/ IPA voiced velar plosive ꬶ Script G with crossed-tail Teuthonista [4] 𝼁 Reversed script g extIPA [19] [20] extIPA voiced velodorsal plosive [19] [20] ɢ 𐞒 Small capital G IPA /ɢ/ IPA voiced uvular plosive; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] FUT /ɡ̥ ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
This happens to be silent, so that fh in Gaelic corresponds to no sound at all, e.g. the Irish phrase cá fhad /kaː ˈad̪ˠ/ "how long", where fhad is the lenited form of fad /fˠad̪ˠ/ "long". However, in three Scottish Gaelic words, fhèin, fhuair, and fhathast, it is pronounced as /h/. fx is used in Nambikwara for a glottalized /ɸʔ/.
The sound is normally considered nonstandard or dialectal in Russian and is avoided by educated Russian speakers. Бог (Bog, "God") is always pronounced [box] in the nominative case. [1] In the Russian nominal genitive ending -ого, -его, ghe represents , including in the word сегодня ("today", from сего дня).
There are no letters that have context-dependent sound values, the way c and g in several European languages have a "hard" or "soft" pronunciation. The IPA does not usually have separate letters for two sounds if no known language makes a distinction between them, a property known as "selectiveness".
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Another type of spelling characteristic is related to word origin. For example, when representing a vowel, y represents the sound /ɪ/ in some words borrowed from Greek (reflecting an original upsilon), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter i .