| 词条 | Æ |
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Æ (minuscule: æ) is a grapheme named æsc or ash, formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the full status of a letter in the alphabets of some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. As a letter of the Old English Latin alphabet, it was called æsc ("ash tree")[1] after the Anglo-Saxon futhorc rune ᚫ ( ) which it transliterated; its traditional name in English is still ash {{IPAc-en|æ|ʃ}}. It was also used in Old Swedish before being changed to ä. In recent times, it is also used to represent a short "a" sound (as in "cat"). Variants include Ǣ ǣ Ǽ ǽ æ̀. {{SpecialChars}}LatinIn Classical Latin, the combination AE denotes the diphthong {{IPA-lat|ai̯|}}, which had a value similar to the long i in fine as pronounced in most dialects of Modern English.[2] Both classical and present practice is to write the letters separately, but the ligature was used in medieval and early modern writings, in part because æ was reduced to the simple vowel {{IPA-lat|ɛ|}} during the Roman Empire. In some medieval scripts, the ligature was simplified to ę, an e with ogonek, the e caudata. That was further simplified into a plain e, which may have influenced or been influenced by the pronunciation change. However, the ligature is still relatively common in liturgical books and musical scores. FrenchIn the modern French alphabet, æ is used to spell Latin and Greek borrowings like tænia and ex æquo. It was greatly popularized in Serge Gainsbourg's song Elaeudanla Téïtéïa (i.e. "L, A, E dans l'A, T, I, T, I, A"), which is the spelling in French of the name Lætitia. EnglishIn English, usage of the ligature varies in different places. In modern typography, if technological limitations make the use of æ difficult (such as in use of typewriters, first telegraphs, or ASCII), the digraph ae is often used instead. In the United States, the problem of the ligature is sidestepped in many cases by use of a simplified spelling with "e", as happened with œ as well. Usage, however, may vary; for example, medieval is now more common than mediaeval (and the now old-fashioned mediæval) even in the United Kingdom,[3] but archaeology is preferred over archeology, even in the US.[4] Given their long history, ligatures are sometimes used to invoke archaism or in literal quotations of historic sources; for instance, words such as dæmon or æther are often treated so. The ligature is seen on gravestones of the 19th century, short for ætate ("at the age of"): "Æ xxYs, yyMs, zzDs." It is also common in formal typography (invitations, resolutions, announcements and some government documents). In Old English, æ represented a sound between a and e ({{IPAslink|æ}}), very much like the short a of cat in many dialects of Modern English. If long vowels are distinguished from short vowels, the long version {{IPA|/æː/}} is marked with a macron (ǣ) or, less commonly, an acute (ǽ). Other Germanic languagesIn Old Norse, æ represents the long vowel {{IPAslink|ɛː}}. The short version of the same vowel, {{IPA|/ɛ/}}, if it is distinguished from {{IPA|/e/}}, is written as ę. In most varieties of Faroese, æ is pronounced as follows:
One of its etymological origins is Old Norse é (the other is Old Norse æ), which is particularly evident in the dialects of Suðuroy, where Æ is {{IPA-fo|eː|}} or {{IPA-fo|ɛ|}}:
In Icelandic, æ represents the diphthong {{IPA-is|ai|}}. It follows "Z" in the Dano-Norwegian alphabet and is followed by "Ø" and finally "Å". All three are vowels. In Danish and Norwegian, æ is a separate letter of the alphabet that represents a monophthong. In Norwegian, there are four ways of pronouncing the letter:
In many western, northern and southwestern Norwegian dialects and in the western Danish dialects of {{lang|da|Thy|italic=no}} and Southern Jutland, {{lang|da|æ}} has a significant meaning: the first person singular pronoun I. It is thus a normal spoken word and is usually written {{lang|da|æ}} when such dialects are rendered in writing. In western and southern Jutish dialects of Danish, {{lang|da|æ}} is also the proclitic definite article: {{lang|da|æ hus}} (the house), as opposed to Standard Danish and all other Nordic varieties which have enclitic definite articles (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian: {{lang|da|huset}}, Icelandic, Faroese: {{lang|is|húsið}} (the house)). The dialects are rarely committed to writing, except for some dialect literature. The equivalent letter in German and Swedish is {{lang|de|ä}}, but it is not located at the same place within the alphabet. In German, it is not a separate letter from "A" but in Swedish, it is the second-last letter (between å and ö). In the normalised spelling of Middle High German, {{lang|gmh|æ}} represents a long vowel [ɛː]. The actual spelling in the manuscripts varies, however. OsseticOssetic used the letter æ when it was written using the Latin script from 1923 to 1938. Since then, Ossetian has used a Cyrillic alphabet with an identical-looking letter (Ӕ and ӕ). It is pronounced as a mid-central vowel (schwa). South American languagesThe letter æ is used in the official orthography of Kawésqar spoken in Chile and also in that of the Fuegian language Yaghan. International Phonetic AlphabetThe symbol {{IPA|[æ]}} is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a near-open front unrounded vowel like in the word cat in many dialects of Modern English, which is the sound that was most likely represented by the Old English letter. In the IPA, it is always in lowercase. Uralic Phonetic AlphabetThe Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) uses several additional æ-related symbols:[5]
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| 00C6 | name1 = LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE | 00E6 | name2 = LATIN SMALL LETTER AE | 01E2 | name3 = latin capital letter ae with macron | 01E3 | name4 = latin small letter ae with macron | 01FC | name5 = latin capital letter ae with acute | 01FD | name6 = latin small letter ae with acute }} Cyrillic{{main|Ae (Cyrillic)}}The Latin letters are frequently used in place of the Cyrillic Ӕ and ӕ in Cyrillic texts (such as on Ossetian sites on the Internet). See also
References1. ^{{cite book |chapter=æsc |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H99ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA11 |page=11 |title=A Handy Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on Groschopp's Grein |editor1-last=Harrison |editor1-first=James A. |editor2-last=Baskervill |editor2-first=W. M. |year=1885 |publisher=A. S. Barnes}} 2. ^James Morwood (1999). Latin Grammar, Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-860199-9}}, p. 3 3. ^The spelling medieval is given priority in both Oxford and Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Accessed September 22, 2014. 4. ^Merriam-Webster Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Accessed September 22, 2014. 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02141-n2419-uralic-phonetic.pdf|title=L2/02-141: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS|date=2002-03-20|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|authorlink1=Michael Everson|display-authors=etal}}
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