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æ (upper case Æ)

1. Ligature from the letters a and e.

æ

1. (IPA) near-open front unrounded vowel

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter A):   Áá  Àà  Ââ  Ǎǎ  Ăă  Ãã  Ảả  Ȧȧ  Ạạ  Ää  Åå  Ḁḁ  Āā  Ąą  ᶏ  Ⱥⱥ  Ȁȁ  Ấấ  Ầầ  Ẫẫ  Ẩẩ  Ậậ  Ắắ  Ằằ  Ẵẵ  Ẳẳ  Ặặ  Ǻǻ  Ǡǡ  Ǟǟ  Ȁȁ  Ȃȃ  Ɑɑ  ᴀ  Ɐɐ  ɒ  Ａａ Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜳꜳ  Ꜵꜵ  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ
• (Variations of letter E):  Éé  Èè  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ěě  Ĕĕ  Ẽẽ  Ḛḛ  Ẻẻ  Ėė  Ëë  Ēē  Ȩȩ  Ęę  ᶒ  Ɇɇ  Ȅȅ  Ếế  Ềề  Ễễ  Ểể  Ḝḝ  Ḗḗ  Ḕḕ  Ȇȇ  Ẹẹ  Ệệ  ⱸ  ᴇ  Ｅｅ  Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  &  Œœ  ᵫ
• (Letter combinations):  Ꜳꜳ  Ææ  ᴁᴭ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜵꜵ  Åå  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ  Ꜽꜽ  ct  ȸ  DZDzdz  DŽDždž  ᴂᵆ  ᴔ  &  ff  fi  ffi  fl  ffl  ℔  IJij  LJLjlj  Ỻỻ  Ŋŋ  NJNjnj  Œœ  ɶ  Ꝏꝏ  Ȣȣᴕ  ȹ  ẞß  ſtst  ᵫ  Ůů  Ww  Ꝡꝡ
• SAMPA equivalent: {
• æ-tensing

• IPA^(key): /æʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

æ (lower case, upper case Æ, plural æs or æ's)

1. (chiefly dated or linguistics) A ligature of vowels a and e.

   Synonym: ash

• 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/ or /iː/, but sometimes retained (in this form, or as ae) when it has a different sound, as in formulæ/formulae.

• ash
• œ
• Appendix:English pronunciation

• EA, Ea, ea, ea.

• IPA^(key): /ɛː/, [ɛːˀ]

æ (upper case Æ)

1. Antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.

• (Latin-script letters) bogstav; A a (Á á), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ý ý), Z z, Æ æ (Ǽ ǽ), Ø ø (Ǿ ǿ), Å å (Ǻ ǻ)

• “æ” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Danish thæn (Modern Danish den).

æ

1. (dialectal) the (definite article)

• “æ” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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

æ (upper case Æ)

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

• (Latin-script letters) bókstavur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, Y y, Ý ý, Æ æ, Ø ø

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

æ (lower case, upper case Æ)

1. Ligature of the letters a and e

   Synonym: e dans l'a

æ (lower case, upper case Æ)

1. Obsolete form of ä (used, alongside other graphemes, until ca. 1700, since then very rarely).

• IPA^(key): /ai̯/

æ (upper case Æ)

1. The thirty-first letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) bókstafur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Þ þ, Æ æ, Ö ö

æ

1. ah!, oh!

   Æ, já nú man ég! ― Ah, now I remember!

2. indicating annoyance

   Æ, hvað heitir lagið aftur? ― Remind me again, what that song's called?

   Æææ, ég er kominn með bólu. ― Darn it, I have a zit.

3. indicating compassion; alas

   Æ, það er leitt að heyra. ― That's sad to hear.

   Æ, því miður. ― Unfortunately not.

4. indicating affection; aww!

   Æææ, en sætt! ― Aww, how cute!

5. indicating pain; ouch!, ow!

   Æ! Hann beit mig! ― Ouch! He bit me!

   Synonyms: ái, áts, á

Can be arbitrarily lengthened and written as ææ, æææ and so on.

æ

1. always, forever

• ætíð
• um aldur og ævi

• sí og æ (“always, for ever and ever”)

From Old Norse ek.

• IPA^(key): /æ/

æ

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛː/

æ

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

• e, ea, ee, eo

From Old English ēa, ǣ.

æ

1. a waterway; a stream or river.

• English: ea, Eau, eau, yeo

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /æː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /æː/, /æ/

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æ (upper case Æ)

1. Antepenultimate letter of the Norwegian alphabet, coming after Z and before Ø.

Variant of eg, from Old Norse ek.

• IPA^(key): /æː/

æ (accusative mæ)

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Northern Norway, Southern Norway) I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

• fugl (Nynorsk)

• IPA^(key): /æː/

ǣ (upper case Æ)

1. 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

From Proto-West Germanic *aiwi. Cognate with Old Frisian and Old High German ēwa ~ ē, Old Saxon ēo.

• ǣw, eaw, eau, eu, æwe, a

ǣ f

1. law
2. marriage
3. rite

• ǣbōc
• ǣwbryċe
• ǣwlīċ
• ǣwnian

• Middle English: æw, eaw, e, æ, eu

ǣ f

1. Alternative form of ēa: river, running water

From Proto-Germanic *aiwi (“forever”), *aiwaz. Cognate with Old English ā, āwa, ǣ, Old Saxon eo, io, ia, Old High German eo, io.

• ei, ey

æ (not comparable)

1. ever, eternally, at any time
   • Vǫluspá, verse 19, lines 7-8, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 4:

     […] stendr æ yfir grœnn / Urðar brunni

     […] stands ever green, over / the well of Urd

• Icelandic: æ
• Old Swedish: ē, ǣ
  • Swedish: ä, e, e-
• → Middle English: aye, ai, agg
  • English: aye

æ

1. inflection of æja:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

æ

1. a letter of the Old Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.