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Latin
Letter
ꝫ (upper case Ꝫ) (Medieval Latin, siglum)
- (word-final) Scribal abbreviation of ⟨et⟩ as -et.
- habꝫ → habet
- (word-final) Scribal abbreviation of ⟨est⟩ as -est.
- potꝫ → potest
- (word-final) Scribal abbreviation of ⟨ue⟩ as part of -que.
- usqꝫ → usque
- (word-final) Scribal abbreviation of ⟨us⟩ as -us when at the end of a noun in the dative or ablative plural.
- aͥquibꝫ → aliquibus
- (word-final) Scribal abbreviation of ⟨m⟩ as part of -am, -em or -um.
- abluͦneꝫ → ablutionem
- A word-final mark of abbreviation for some sequence of letters ending in one of the above forms.
- viꝫ → videlicet; quiꝯꝫ → quicumque; opīoꝫ → opinionem
Usage notes
Although used as an abbreviation for the word-final letter sequences ⟨et⟩ or ⟨est⟩, ꝫ is never used in isolation as an abbreviation for the words et or est.
References
- Michael Everson (editor), Peter Baker, António Emiliano, Florian Grammel, Odd Einar Haugen, Diana Luft, Susana Pedro, Gerd Schumacher and Andreas Stötzner. Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS, January 2006. http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf
- Cappelli, Adriano (1982) David Heimann, Richard Kay, transl., The elements of abbreviation in medieval Latin paleography, archived from the original on 11-03-2022
Old Norse
Letter
ꝫ (uppercase Ꝫ) (siglum)
- (medial or word-final) Scribal abbreviation of ⟨eð⟩.
- mꝫ → með; mꝫan → meðan
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