◌̇

See also: · [U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT], ∙ [U+2219 BULLET OPERATOR], ⋅ [U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR], • [U+2022 BULLET], ‧ [U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT], ・ [U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT], and ･ [U+FF65 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT]

◌̇ U+0307, ̇ COMBINING DOT ABOVE ← ◌̆ [U+0306] Combining Diacritical Marks ◌̈ → [U+0308]

Translingual

Diacritical mark

◌̇

1. (NAPA) A central vowel (e.g. rounded ⟨ȯ, ɔ̇⟩ or unrounded ⟨ɛ̇, æ̇⟩).

   (on a consonant) Added to a letter with a descender to indicate retracted articulation, e.g. ⟨ġ⟩ for ⟨g̣⟩ (IPA [ɢ]), ⟨γ̇⟩ or ⟨ɣ̇⟩ (IPA [ʁ]), ⟨ŋ̇⟩ (IPA [ɴ]).

2. (IPA, obsolete) palatalized (on a consonant letter).

   (IPA, obsolete) centralized (on a vowel letter).

Irish

Etymology

Originally used in Latin-language manuscripts to "cross out" a letter written mistakenly, hence the name punctum delens (literally “deleting dot”). In Old Irish and Middle Irish manuscripts, it came to be sometimes used over ⟨f⟩ and ⟨s⟩ to show that these letters had undergone lenition to ∅ and /h/ respectively; the letters were thus effectively "crossed out" to show that their sounds had been deleted or debuccalized. In later Middle Irish and early Modern Irish, the dot came to be used to indicate lenition of any consonant. (In older Irish, lenition of ⟨c p t⟩ was indicated by ⟨ch ph th⟩, and lenition of ⟨b d g m⟩ was not shown at all.)

Diacritical mark

◌̇

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called ponc séimhithe (“lenition dot”) in Irish, and found on Ḃ/ḃ, Ċ/ċ, Ḋ/ḋ, Ḟ/ḟ, Ġ/ġ, Ṁ/ṁ, Ṗ/ṗ, Ṡ/ṡ and Ṫ/ṫ. Generally used only in Gaelic script; very rare in Latin script.