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See also: Æ, æ-, -æ, ӕ, ǽ, ǣ, ᴂ, ᵆ, Appendix:Variations of "a", Appendix:Variations of "e", and Appendix:Variations of "ae"

æ U+00E6, æ
LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
← å
 		Latin-1 Supplement ç →
𐞃 U+10783, 𐞃
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AE
← 𐞂
 		Latin Extended-F 𐞄 →

Translingual

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æ

  1. (IPA) a near-open front unrounded vowel.
  2. (superscript ⟨𐞃⟩, IPA) -coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo .

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iː/, /ɛ/, or speaker's approximation of Latin ae.

Symbol

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

  1. (chiefly dated) The letter ash, a ligature of vowels a and e.
    Synonyms: ae, e

Usage notes

  • 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.
  • 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.

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.
Inflection
Declension of æ
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative æ æ'et æ'er æ'erne
genitive æ's æ'ets æ'ers æ'ernes
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References

Etymology 2

From Old Danish thæn (Modern Danish den).

Article

æ

  1. (dialectal) the (definite article)

Further reading

Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

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

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French

Pronunciation

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

æ (lower case, upper case Æ)

  1. Ligature of the letters a and e
    Synonym: e dans l’a

German

Symbol

æ (lower case, upper case Æ)

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

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

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Interjection

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!
    Synonyms: ái, áts, á
    Æ! Hann beit mig! ― Ouch! He bit me!

Usage notes

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

Adverb

æ

  1. always, forever

Synonyms

Derived terms

Jutish

Etymology

From Old Norse ek.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

æ

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

References

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

Kawésqar

Pronunciation

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. A letter of the Kawésqar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ligurian

Pronunciation

Verb

æ

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English ēa, ǣ.

Noun

æ

  1. a waterway; a stream or river.

Descendants

  • English: ea, Eau, eau, yeo

Norwegian

Pronunciation

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Variant of eg, from Old Norse ek.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

æ (accusative mæ)

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

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Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Noun

ǣ f

  1. law
  2. marriage
  3. rite
Declension
Declension of æ
Case Singular Plural
nominative ǣ ǣ
accusative ǣ ǣ
genitive ǣ ǣwa
dative ǣ ǣwum
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 3

Noun

ǣ f

  1. Alternative form of ēa: river, running water

Old Norse

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Adverb

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
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

æ

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

Old Swedish

Pronunciation

Letter

æ

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

Verb

æ

  1. second-person present imperative of vara

Swedish

Letter

æ (upper case Æ)

  1. Historical Swedish letter, now obsolete and rarely used, replaced by a, e and ä.

See also

Wikious
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