Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also …

2012年6月14日 · The letter æ was used in Old English to represent the vowel that's pronounced in Modern English ash, fan, happy, and last: /æ/. Mostly we now spell that vowel with the letter a, because of the Great Vowel Shift.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is æ , a lowercase of the Æ ligature. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "ash".

5 天之前 · letter of the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) alphabet, listed in 24th and final position by Byrhtferð (1011); Called æsċ (“ ash tree ”) after the Anglo-Saxon ᚫ rune

This brief video tutorial shows you how to write the ash symbol in a single, continuous stroke.

2025年1月25日 · Æ (upper case, lower case æ, plural Æs or Æ's) (chiefly dated or linguistics) A ligature of vowels A and E, called ash. Mostly used for words of either Ancient Greek or Latin origin, though also used when referencing Old English texts …

Old English, like most medieval languages, shows a wide range of diacritic marks and unusual characters which are no longer used in the modern language. Fortunately, most of the more commonly encountered issues such as thorn (þ), eth (ð), long ash (ǣ) and wynn (ƿ) can be displayed within Unicode.

Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also …

2018年8月5日 · In English phonology as in phonetics, the symbol æ is used to denote the sound of the low front vowel in ash, lap, bad, Sam, and mass. That's not "short A" -- that's what it was in Middle English, all right, but this is Modern English, and it's just /æ/.

1 天前 · Ash Wednesday is today, marking the start of Lent and the Christian Easter Season. The holy day, also known as the Day of Ashes, has roots all the way back to the Middle Ages. While most commonly ...