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U+204A, ⁊
TIRONIAN SIGN ET

[U+2049]
General Punctuation
[U+204B]
See also: Appendix:Variations of "et" and

Translingual

Contemporary usage in Ireland

Symbol

  1. Tironian sign representing et (and);

Usage notes

Found especially in Old English, Old Irish, and Middle Irish manuscripts. Still used in Ireland, as of 2010; was used in blackletter texts as late as 1821, otherwise unused.

In Old English manuscripts, it stood not only for the conjunction and, ond (and), but also for the unrelated prefix and-, ond-; thus andswaru (answer) could be written ⁊swaru.

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