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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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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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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replaced the Middle English letter yogh (Ȝȝ), which developed from the letter G, ultimately from Semitic gimel. Yogh could also represent other sounds...
33 KB (3,225 words) - 18:20, 7 July 2024
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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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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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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