๐
See also: ๊จ [U+A668 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER MONOCULAR O], ๊ฉ [U+A669 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER MONOCULAR O], ส [U+0298 LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK], โต [U+2D59 TIFINAGH LETTER YAS], โ [U+2609 SUN], โ [U+2299 CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR], โจ [U+2A00 N-ARY CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR], and โ [U+25C9 FISHEYE]
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Gothic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. According to Snรฆdal[1], most likely an adapted Ancient Greek ฮ (Th, โthetaโ), though links to ฮจ (Ps, โpsiโ) have also been made.
Letter
[edit]- The twenty-fifth letter of the Gothic alphabet, representing /ส/, with a numerical value of 700.
Usage notes
[edit]- This letter is glossed in Latin script with the name uuaer (reconstructed *๐๐ฐ๐น๐ (*ฦair)) in Codex Vindobonensis 795, a Carolingian-era manuscript.
See also
[edit]
- Gothic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ๐ฐ, ๐ฑ, ๐ฒ, ๐ณ, ๐ด, ๐ต, ๐ถ, ๐ท, ๐ธ, ๐น, ๐บ, ๐ป, ๐ผ, ๐ฝ, ๐พ, ๐ฟ, ๐, ๐, ๐, ๐, ๐, ๐ , ๐, ๐, ๐, ๐, ๐ [edit]
Trivia
[edit]In the unemended main text, ๐ is the 23rd most common letter, occurring 1,503 times. It is also the 23rd most common numeral, attested 5 times in the entire Gothic corpus (including sectional numbering).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Snรฆdal, Magnรบs (2015), โGothic Contact with Latin: Gotica Parisina and Wulfila's Alphabetโ, in Askedal, J.O. and H.F. Nielsen, editors, Early Germanic Languages in Contact, , โISBN, pages 98โ108, especially 99-100
- ^ Snรฆdal, Magnรบs (2013), โGothic letter (and phoneme) statisticsโ, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis[1], volume 130, , pages 277โ295