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yogh
[ yohkh ]
noun
- the letter used in the writing of Middle English to represent a palatal fricative, as in ung (Modern English young ) or a velar fricative, as in litliche (Modern English lightly ).
yogh
/ jɒɡ /
noun
- a character (ȝ) used in Old and Middle English to represent a palatal fricative very close to the semivowel sound of Modern English y, as in Old English ȝeong (young)
- this same character as used in Middle English for both the voiced and voiceless palatal fricatives; when final or in a closed syllable in medial position the sound approached that of German ch in ich, as in knyȝt (knight). After the 14th century this symbol became the modern consonantal (semivocalic) y when initial or commencing a syllable, and though no longer pronounced in medial position it is preserved in many words by a modern gh, as in thought
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Origin of yogh1
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Origin of yogh1
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Example Sentences
W'y-ee-yogh, the Man of Sense; a brave, with a handsome pipe in his hand, and bears claw necklace on his neck.
Except for yogh, h-stroke and paired , unusual letters appear only in the editorial material (introduction, notes and glossary).
Yogh is used in dictionary headwords; the others occur only in etymologies.
Yogh and thorn are alphabetized as g and t. I and J are alphabetized together.
Chipping Walden, of the Saxon word ᵹipping (or ghipping) uses the insular 'g' (ᵹ), variant of (lowercase) yogh (ȝ).
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