Eth

 ( Faroese Language ) 

Eth ( , uppercase: ⟨ Ð⟩, lowercase: ⟨ ð⟩; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English, is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian alphabets.

It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with , and later .

It is often transliteration as .

The lowercase version has been adopted to represent a voiced dental fricative (IPA: ) in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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Faroese In Faroese language, is not assigned to any particular phoneme and appears mostly for etymological reasons, but it indicates most semivowel. When appears before , it is in a few words pronounced . In the Faroese alphabet, follows .

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Khmer

 is sometimes used in [[Khmer|Khmer language]] romanization to represent ឍ ''''.
     

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Icelandic In Icelandic, , called "eð", represents an alveolar non-sibilant fricative, voiced intervocalically and word-finally, and voiceless otherwise, which form one phoneme, . Generally, is represented by thorn at the beginning of words and by elsewhere. The in the name of the letter is devoiced in the nominative and accusative cases: . In the Icelandic alphabet, follows .

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Norwegian In Olav Jakobsen Høyem's version of Nynorsk based on Trøndersk, was always silent, and was introduced for etymological reasons.

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Old English In Old English, (called ðæt) was used interchangeably with to represent the Old English dental consonant fricative phoneme or its allophone , which exist in modern English as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled .

Unlike the runic letter , is a modified Roman cursive letter. Neither nor was found in the earliest records of Old English. A study of royal diplomas found that began to emerge in the early 8th century, with becoming strongly preferred by the 780s. Another source indicates that the letter is "derived from Insular script".

Under the reign of King Alfred the Great, grew greatly in popularity and started to overtake , and did so completely by the Middle English period. in turn went obsolete by the Early Modern English period, mostly due to the rise of the printing press,

and was replaced by the digraph .

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Welsh

has also been used by some in written [[Welsh|Welsh language]] to represent , which is normally represented as ..
     

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Phonetic transcription

• (U+00F0) represents a voiced dental fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• (U+1D9E) is used in phonetic transcription.
• ᴆ (U+1D06) is used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet.

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Computer encoding Upper and lower case forms of eth have Unicode encodings:

These Unicode were inherited from ISO/IEC 8859-1 ("ISO Latin-1") encoding.

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Modern uses

• A capital eth is used as the currency symbol for Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency.

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See also

• D
• T

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Further reading

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External links

• .

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