Phrase guide
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noun
A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.
Used in Latin for a long ē that represents an etymological ⟨ae⟩ or ⟨oe⟩ diphthong, both of which diphthongs had phonologically merged into ⟨ē⟩ by the early Mediaeval period.
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noun
A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.
Used in Middle and Early Modern Irish for ⟨e⟩, ⟨ae⟩, and ⟨ea⟩.
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noun
A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.
Used in Old Norse for /æ(ː)/, representing the Proto-Germanic *a (as opposed to the Proto-Germanic *e).
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History
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ē caudāta (literally “tailed e”).
Across languages
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