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Æ

Æ

Æ U+00C6, Æ
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
Å
[U+00C5]
Latin-1 Supplement Ç
[U+00C7]
See also: ᎪᎬ, ǽ, Ǽ, ǣ, Ǣ, Appendix:Variations of "a", Appendix:Variations of "ae", and Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

Letter

Æ upper case (lower case æ)

  1. A ligature from the letters A and E.

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English

Symbol

Æ upper case (lower case æ)

  1. (chiefly dated or linguistic) Ligature of vowels A and E, called ash.
  2. (archaic) aevum; formerly used on gravestones to indicate the deceased's age at time of death

Usage notes

  • Mostly used for words of either Ancient Greek or Latin origin, though also used when referencing Old English texts or using recently derived Old English loanwords.
  • Uncommon in modern times mainly due to its absence in some typographical equipment.

Proper noun

Æ

  1. The pseudonym of the Irish writer George William Russell.

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Anagrams


Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛː/, [ɛːˀ]

Letter

Æ (lower case æ)

  1. The antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.

Inflection

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Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛa/
  • Homophones: a, A, æ

Letter

Æ (lower case æ)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ai/

Letter

Æ (lower case æ)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian

Letter

Æ (lower case æ)

  1. The antepenultimate letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Old English

Letter

Æ (lower case æ)

  1. Uppercase ash, letter of the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) alphabet, listed in 24th and final position by Byrhtferð (1011). Called æsc "ash tree" after the Anglo-Saxon rune.

æ

æ

æ U+00E6, æ
LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
å
[U+00E5]
Latin-1 Supplement ç
[U+00E7]
See also: ӕ, Appendix:Variations of "a", Appendix:Variations of "e", and Appendix:Variations of "ae"

Translingual

Pronunciation

Letter

æ lower case (upper case Æ)

  1. Ligature from the letters a and e.

Symbol

æ

  1. (IPA) near-open front unrounded vowel

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English

Symbol

æ lower case (upper case Æ)

  1. (chiefly dated or linguistic) A ligature of vowels a and e, called ash.

Usage notes

  • Mostly used for words of either Ancient Greek or Latin origin, though also used when referencing Old English texts or using recently derived Old English loanwords.
  • Uncommon in modern times except in linguistic use.
  • Often absent in American English (reduced to e) whenever it has the sound /ɛ/ (SAMPA /E/) or /iː/ (SAMPA /i:/), but sometimes retained (in this form, or as ae) when it has a different sound, as in formulæ/formulae.

See also

  • ash
  • œ
  • Appendix:English pronunciation

Anagrams


Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛː/, [ɛːˀ]

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.

Inflection

See also


Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛa/
  • Homophones: a, A

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


German

Symbol

æ (lower case, upper case Æ)

  1. (obsolete) Vowel borrowed from Latin. Succeeded by ä.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ai̯/

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Penultimate letter of the Icelandic alphabet.

Interjection

æ

  1. ah!, oh!, alas!
  2. ouch!, ow!

Adverb

æ

  1. always, forever

Synonyms

  • ætíð
  • um aldur og ævi

Derived terms

  • sí og æ ("always, for ever and ever")

Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /æː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /æː/, /æ/

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Antepenultimate letter of the Norwegian alphabet, coming after Z and before Ø.

Pronoun

æ

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)(dialectal, mostly found in Trøndelag, northern Norway, and parts of western and southern Norway).

Old English

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Æ, letter of the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) alphabet, listed in 24th and final position by Byrhtferð (1011). Called æsc "ash tree" after the Anglo-Saxon rune.

Alternative forms

  • ǣw

Noun

ǣ f

  1. law, scripture
    • God is wisdom and æ woruldbuendra. God is the wisdom and law of world-dwellers.
  2. ceremony, custom, marriage
Declension
Derived terms
  • ǣwnian
  • æubreche "adultery, adulterer"

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ahwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Cognate with Old Frisian â, ê, Old Norse á, Old Saxon and Old High German aha, and Gothic ahwa; and with Latin aqua.

Alternative forms

Noun

ǣ f

  1. river, running water

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiwi (forever). Cognate with Old English ā, āwa, ǣ, Old Saxon eo, io, ia, Old High German eo, io.

Adverb

æ (not comparable)

  1. ever, at any time

Descendants

  • Icelandic: æ