Eth

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.
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 ), 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.