Eth

"Edh" redirects here. For other uses, see Eth (disambiguation) and Edh (disambiguation).
"Ð" and "ð" redirect here. For the similar looking letter, see D with stroke. For the sound that is represented by ⟨ð⟩ in the IPA, see Voiced dental fricative.
"-D" redirects here. For the keyboard symbol, see Emoticon.
For technical reasons, ":-D" redirects here. For the keyboard symbol, see Emoticon.
Ð
Ð ð
Writing cursive forms of Ð
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
TypeAlphabetic and logographic
Language of originOld English
Old Norse
Sound values[ð]
[θ]
[ð̠]
/ˈɛð/
In UnicodeU+00D0, U+00F0
History
Development
Time period~800 to present
SistersNone
Transliterationsd
Other
Associated graphsth, dh
Writing directionLeft-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page.
Lower case and upper case of Eth (⟨Ð⟩, ⟨ð⟩ expressed by a sans serif single-stroke-width font and a serif variable-stroke-width font
Eth in Arial and Times New Roman

Eth (/ɛð/ edh, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English,[1] is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian.

It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with ⟨dh⟩, and later ⟨d⟩.

It is often transliterated as ⟨d⟩.

The lowercase version has been adopted to represent a voiced dental fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

  1. ^ Marsden, Richard (2004). The Cambridge Old English Reader. Cambridge University Press. p. xxix.