Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Middle English letter ȝ, used to represent the sound (y) and some velar consonants similar to the ch in German Bach and the r in French France.
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- noun A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various
palatal andvelar sounds.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(For þe same reason, we dropped þe old letters wynn - ƿ - and yogh - ȝ - þough þe latter survives in þe name of Sir Menȝies Campbell.)
Reclaiming þorn nwhyte 2009
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Thus, I have devised a new health plan I am calling "triple-yogh days."
Introducing Triple-Yogh Days: Complete with a Random Bullets of Catch-up Preamble Heo 2008
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Maybe yogh, too, if we can all agree on what sound it represents.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recovering the lost English language: 2007
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The printed linenotes almost always use yogh (ȝ) for insular
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Refer to the image for the black letter poems as the yogh/ezh & thorn/h characters are difficult to distinguish.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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It has been variously transcribed as “z” or “ȝ” (yogh) according to context, but appears to be the identical letter every time:
The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue Stephen Hawes
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To maximize accessibility, the character "3" is used in this e-text to represent the yogh, e.g., "3ong"
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Ȝ, ȝ (yogh) ⁊ (Tironian ampersand) þ̵ (thorn with stroke -- also see below) ę (e with tail, “e caudata”) ẏ (y with over-dot)
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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ȝ, ſ (yogh, long s) ɳ, łł (n with curl, crossed l: see below) φ (Greek phi: see below) ʷ (small raised “w”)
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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The Anglo-Saxon yogh symbol is here represented by [y].]
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
kewpid commented on the word yogh
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Why Men�?ies is pronounced Ming-ISS, not Men-zeez, à la the Australian PM.
November 3, 2007