æ

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

Translingual

Pronunciation

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Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Ligature from the letters a and e.

Symbol

æ

  1. (IPA) near-open front unrounded vowel

See also

English

Symbol

æ (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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛː/, [ɛːˀ]

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.
Inflection

See also

References

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ek

Pronunciation

Pronoun

æ

  1. (dialectal, Fjolde) I (first-person singular pronoun)

References

  • “æ” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

Etymology 3

From Old Danish thæn (Modern Danish den).

Article

æ

  1. (dialectical) the (definite article)

Further reading

Faroese

Pronunciation

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

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

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

See also

French

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ø dɑ̃ l‿a/

Letter

æ (lower case, upper case Æ)

  1. Ligature of the letters a and e.
    Synonym: e dans l'a

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")

Ligurian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛː/

Verb

æ

  1. second-person singular present indicative of avéi: you have (singular)

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English ēa, ǣ.

Noun

æ

  1. a waterway; a stream or river.

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

Alternative forms

  • ǣw

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æː/

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 ᚫ rune.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *aiwō, *aiwaz (“law”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oywos (“eternity, law”). Cognate with Old Saxon êo, Old Frisian ewa, êwe, ê, â, Old High German êwa, êha, êa, ê (German Ehe).

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

Descendants

  • Middle English: æw, æ, eu

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

Alternative forms

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

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