ø

ø U+00F8, ø LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE ← ÷ Latin-1 Supplement ù →

Translingual

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Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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Letter

ø (upper case Ø)

1. A vowel in some Scandinavian alphabets and an umlaut in eastern Middle Low German handwriting.
   1. (humorous) Sometimes inserted in English or other languages in place of the o, for the purpose of imitating Scandinavian languages.
      • 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (movie)

        Nø realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with her sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge — her brother-in-law — an Oslo dentist and star of many Nowegian mørvies: The Høt Lands of an Oslo Dentist, Fillings of Passion, The Huge Møllars of Horst Nordfink...

      • 1975, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Asterix and the Great Crossing (original French title: La Grande Traversée), page 41

        [original French text]
        Øbsen: Åh, te vøice enfin, Kerøsen! Espèce de fåinéånt, qu'Ødin te måudisse mille et mille føis!
        Åvånssen: C'est... C'est Øbsen le Terrifiånt, le chef de nøtre clån!

        
        Ødiuscømpårissen: Øh, there yøu åre åt låst, Herendethelessen! Yøu låzy blighter! By Ødin, where the Niflheim håve yøu been?
        Steptøånssen: It's... It's... Ødiuscømpårissen the Terrifying, the chief øf øur tribe!

Symbol

ø

1. (IPA) a close-mid front rounded vowel.
2. (superscript ⟨𐞢⟩, IPA) -coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo .

User notes

U+AB3E ⟨ꬾ⟩ is a spurious variant of ⟨ø⟩.

See also

• 2 (X-SAMPA equivalent)

Central Mazahua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ/

Letter

ø (upper case Ø)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Danish

Etymology 1

Analogical after the other names of vowel letters in the Roman alphabet.

Pronunciation

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Letter

ø (lower case, upper case Ø)

1. The penultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.

Inflection

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bogstav; A a (Á á), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ý ý), Z z, Æ æ (Ǽ ǽ), Ø ø (Ǿ ǿ), Å å

• Ø (bogstav) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ey, from Proto-Germanic *awjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”), see å.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -øːˀ

Noun

ø c (singular definite øen, plural indefinite øer)

2. island

Inflection

Derived terms

See also

• ø on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

References

• “ø,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /øː/

Letter

ø (upper case Ø)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Faroese alphabet, called ø and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bókstavur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, Y y, Ý ý, Æ æ, Ø ø

Noun

ø n (genitive singular øs, plural ø)

1. name of the letter ø

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Norwegian

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /øː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /øː/, /œ/

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Letter

ø (upper case Ø)

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

Old Swedish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Letter

ø

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

Usage notes

• In some transliterated modern text the ø has been replaced by its Swedish descendant ö.

Descendants

• Swedish: oͤ
  • Swedish: ö

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Norse ey.

Noun

ø

1. island
   • c. 1350, Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Codex Bureanus, 1884–1973, quoted in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, page 1160:

     sände domicianus han tel patmos ö

     domicianus sent him to the island of patmos

   • (year missing), Knut Fredrik Söderwall, (title missing, PK), 1884–1973, quoted in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, page 1160:

     birka han laa vppa ena öö j mälar som hether birköö

     Birka he laid out on one of the islands in Mälarn which is called Birk island

Descendants

• Swedish: ö

See also

• øland (“island”)

Seneca

Conjunction

ø

1. Abbreviation of koh.

Southern Sami

Alternative forms

• (Sweden): ö

Letter

ø (upper case Ø)

1. (Norway) The twenty-fourth letter of the Southern Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ï ï, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, Y y, Æ æ, Ä ä, Ø ø, Ö ö, Å å