The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes...
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for [g]. Instances of yogh were eventually replaced by ⟨j⟩ or ⟨y⟩ and by ⟨gh⟩ in words like night and laugh. In Middle Scots, yogh became indistinguishable...
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had passed into Old English, it developed into the Middle English letter yogh (Ȝ ȝ). Middle English, having reborrowed the familiar Carolingian g from...
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replaced the Middle English letter yogh (Ȝȝ), which developed from the letter G, ultimately from Semitic gimel. Yogh could also represent other sounds...
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similar letter in the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language Yogh, Ȝ, a letter used in Middle English and Older Scots Wynn, Ƿ, another runic...
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developed into yogh ⟨Ȝ ȝ⟩, used in Middle English. Wynn was later replaced with the new letter ⟨w⟩, eth and thorn with ⟨th⟩, and yogh with ⟨gh⟩. Although...
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the German alphabet. The character came to be indistinguishable from the yogh (ȝ) in Middle English writing. Unicode assigns codepoints U+2128 ℨ BLACK-LETTER...
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/w/. (The letter 'w' had not yet been invented.) Replaced by w now. Ȝ ȝ Yogh, ȝogh or yoch /ˈjɒɡ/ or /ˈjɒx/, used for various sounds derived from /ɡ/...
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of elements of the Old English alphabet such as thorn <þ>, eth <ð>, and yogh <ʒ>. The substitution of visually similar typographic forms has led to some...
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melange The digraph ⟨gh⟩ (in many cases a replacement for the obsolete letter yogh, which took various values including /ɡ/, /ɣ/, /x/ and /j/) may represent:...
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letter Zeta Z z : Latin letter Z Ʒ ʒ : Latin letter Ezh Ȝ ȝ : Latin letter Yogh Ɜ ɜ : Latin letter reversed open E Ҙ ҙ : Cyrillic letter Dhe or Ze with descender...
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spelling of the name as Menȝies, using the letter ⟨ȝ⟩ (yogh). The current spelling arose when yogh fell out of use in the Scots language and was replaced...
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"L2/20-268: Revised proposal to add ten characters for Middle English to the UCS" (PDF). Digamma Eth Meldorf fibula Thorn (letter) Vend (letter) Yogh Ỽ...
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English manuscripts, this letter usually took its insular form ⟨ᵹ⟩ (see also: yogh). The [j] and [dʒ] pronunciations are sometimes written ⟨ġ⟩ in modern editions...
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into digraphs gh, ch, but in its early days some writers used it for yogh. Yogh dissolved in Scottish proper names to z due to its lower case equivalent...
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fallback representation is the numeral 3, or the Middle English character ȝ Yogh; neither are to be preferred to the genuine Egyptological characters. Written...
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Culzean Castle (/kʌˈleɪn/ kul-AYN, see yogh; Scots: Culzean, Culȝean, Colean) is a castle overlooking the Firth of Clyde, near Maybole, Carrick, in South...
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of elements of the Old English alphabet such as thorn <þ>, eth <ð>, and yogh <ʒ>. The substitution of visually similar typographic forms has led to some...
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of elements of the Old English alphabet such as thorn <þ>, eth <ð>, and yogh <ʒ>. The substitution of visually similar typographic forms has led to some...
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[məˈkɛŋjiː] in Scots, with the "z" representing the old Middle Scots letter, "ȝ" yogh. This is an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, which is...
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Wolfsangel, similar shape to the Eihwaz rune Mees, Bernard (2011). "The Yew Rune, Yogh and Yew". University of Leeds. p. 54. Odenstedt, Bengt (1990), On the Origin...
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Menȝies) arose for the same reason: the letter ⟨z⟩ was substituted for ⟨ȝ⟩ (yogh). Some other combinations of letters look similar, for instance rn looks...
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0350 Miscellaneous U+021C Ȝ 540 Latin Capital Letter Yogh · U+021D ȝ 541 Latin Small Letter Yogh U+021E Ȟ 542 Latin Capital Letter H with caron 0351 for...
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of elements of the Old English alphabet such as thorn <þ>, eth <ð>, and yogh <ʒ>. The substitution of visually similar typographic forms has led to some...
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used in several African languages Dram (unit) (ℨ) and Gothic font letter Z Yogh or Ȝ, letter used in Middle English and Middle Scots Gyfu or Gar (rune) Anglo...
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capital Ezh Uralic Phonetic Alphabet Ƹ ƹ Ezh reversed IPA (obsolete) Ȝ ȝ Yogh Middle English ꭠ Sakha Yat Yakut (historical) Þ þ Thorn Old English, Icelandic...
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Middle Scots letter, yogh, the pronunciation of which is almost identical to the original Norn sound, /hj/. When the use of the letter yogh was discontinued...
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þ (interchangeable with ð in manuscripts) corresponds to th. For ȝ, see Yogh. 1 - (Old English also had a separate dual, ġit ("ye two") etcetera; however...
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used for /z/ but may occur in some words as a substitute for the older ⟨ȝ⟩ (yogh) realised /jɪ/ or /ŋ/. For example: brulzie ("broil"), gaberlunzie (a beggar)...
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