| 词条 | E caudata |
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The e caudata ("tailed e", from {{lang-la|cauda}} "tail") is a modified form of the letter E that can be graphically represented as E with ogonek (ę) but has a distinct history of usage. It was used in Latin from as early as the ninth century to represent the vowel also written ae or æ or in old Gaelic texts from the 13th century to represent an ea ligature.[1] In Middle and Early Modern Irish manuscripts, and in unnormalised transcriptions of them, e caudata is used for e, ae and ea. In Old Norse manuscripts, e caudata was used for both short and long versions of /æ/. In a few texts on Old Norse, it, like German ä, represents short /æ/, the result of i-mutation of Proto-Germanic */a/, and contrasts with e, which represents Proto-Germanic */e/. However, because these two vowels eventually merged to /e/ in the written varieties of Old Norse, they are commonly both written as e. {{Citation needed|date=October 2009|reason=Never heard of this before. Perhaps change is Middle Icel.?}} References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Ea_(ligature)|title=ea (ligature) • CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies|website=www.vanhamel.nl|access-date=2016-07-13}} {{Wiktionary category|category=Latin terms spelled with Ę|type=}}{{Latin-script-stub}} 4 : Latin-script ligatures|Specific letter-diacritic combinations|Old Norse|Palaeographic letter variants |
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