Æ - wikipedia Æ `` Æsh '' redirects here. For the calculator input method AESH, see hierarchical algebraic entry system. For æ in IPA, see near - open front unrounded vowel. Æ in Helvetica and Bodoni 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 '' ) after the Anglo - Saxon futhorc rune ᚫ ( ) which it transliterated ; its traditional name in English is still ash / æʃ /. It was also used in Old Swedish before being changed to ä. Variants include Ǣ ǣ Ǽ ǽ æ̀. This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Æ alone and in context Vanuatu 's domestic airline operated under the name Air Melanesiæ in the 1970s. Contents 1 Latin 2 Greek 3 French 4 English 5 Other Germanic languages 6 Ossetic 7 South American languages 8 International Phonetic Alphabet 9 Uralic Phonetic Alphabet 10 Computer encodings and entering 10.1 Cyrillic 11 See also 12 References 13 External links Latin In Classical Latin, the combination AE denotes the diphthong ( ai̯ ), which had a value similar to the long i in fine as pronounced in most dialects of Modern English. 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 ( 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. Greek The digraph ae was used in Latin to transliterate the Greek diphthong αι ( alpha iota ), but not for ᾳ ( alpha iota subscript ). Modern scientific vocabulary that borrows from Greek continues to use Latin transliteration conventions. French In 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. English In English, usage of the ligature varies in different places. In modern typography, if technological limitations make its use difficult ( such as in use of typewriters, first telegraphs, or ASCII ), æ is often eschewed in favour of the digraph ae. Usage experts often consider that incorrect, especially for foreign words in which æ is considered a letter ( such as Æsir, Ærø ) or brand names that use the ligature or a variation of it ( such as Æon Flux, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ætna, Inc. ). 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, but archaeology is preferred over archeology, even in the US. 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 ( / 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 / æː / is marked with a macron ( ǣ ) or, less commonly, an acute ( ǽ ). Other germanic languages In Old Norse, æ represents the long vowel / ɛː /. The short version of the same vowel, / ɛ /, if it is distinguished from / e /, is written as ę. In most varieties of Faroese, æ is pronounced as follows : ( ɛa ) when simultaneously stressed and occurring either word - finally, before a vowel letter, before a single consonant letter, or before the consonant - letter groups kl, kr, pl, pr, tr, kj, tj, sj and those consisting of ð and one other consonant letter except for ðr when pronounced like gr ( except as below ) a rather open ( eː ) when directly followed by the sound Faroese pronunciation : ( a ), as in ræðast ( silent ð ) and frægari ( silent g ) Faroese pronunciation : ( a ) in all other cases 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 Faroese pronunciation : ( eː ) or ( ɛ ) : æða ( eider ) : Suð. ( eːa ), Northern Faroese ( ɛaːva ) ætt ( family, direction ) : Suð. ( ɛtː ), Northern Faroese ( atː ) In Icelandic, æ represents the diphthong ( 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 : / æː / as in æ ( the name of the letter ), bær, læring, æra, Ænes, ærlig, tærne, Kværner, Dæhlie, særs, ærfugl, lært, trær ( `` trees '' ) / æ / as in færre, æsj, nærmere, Færder, Skjærvø, Solskjær, ærverdig, vært, lærd, Bræin ( where æi is pronounced as a diphthong / æi / ) / eː / as in Sæther, Næser, Sæbø, gælisk, spælsau, bevæpne, sæd, æser, Cæsar, væte, trær ( `` thread ( s ) '' ( verb ) ) / e / as in Sæth, Næss, Brænne, Bækkelund, Vollebæk, væske, trædd West of the red line, classic Danish dialects use æ as the definite article. In many western, northern and southwestern Norwegian dialects and in the western Danish dialects of Thy and Southern Jutland, æ has a significant meaning : the first person singular pronoun I. It is thus a normal spoken word and is usually written æ when such dialects are rendered in writing. In western and southern Jutish dialects of Danish, æ is also the proclitic definite article : æ hus ( the house ), as opposed to Standard Danish and all other Nordic varieties which have en clitic definite articles ( Danish, Swedish, Norwegian : huset, Icelandic, Faroese : húsið ( the house ) ). The dialects are rarely committed to writing, except for some dialect literature. The equivalent letter in German and Swedish is `` 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, æ represents a long vowel ( ɛː ). The actual spelling in the manuscripts varies, however. Ossetic Ossetic Latin script ; part of a page from a book published in 1935 Ossetic 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 languages The letter æ is used in the official orthography of Kawésqar spoken in Chile and also in that of the Fuegian language Yaghan. International Phonetic alphabet The symbol ( 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 alphabet The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet ( UPA ) uses several additional æ - related symbols : U + 1D01 ᴁ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL AE U + 1D02 ᴂ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED AE U + 1D2D Æ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL AE U + 1D46 ᴂ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED AE Computer encodings and entering Danish keyboard with keys for Æ, Ø and Å. On Norwegian keyboards the Æ and Ø trade places. The Æ character ( among others, including Å and ø ) is accessible using AltGr + z on a modern US - International keyboard When using the Latin - 1 or Unicode / HTML character sets, the code points for Æ and æ are U + 00C6 Æ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE ( HTML & # 198 ; &AElig ; ) and U + 00E6 æ LATIN SMALL LETTER AE ( HTML & # 230 ; &aelig ; ), respectively. The characters can be entered by holding the Alt key while typing in 0198 ( upper case ) or 0230 ( lower case ) on the number pad on Windows systems ( the Alt key and 145 for æ or 146 for Æ may also work from the legacy IBM437 codepage ). In the TeX typesetting system, ӕ is produced by ae. In Microsoft Word, Æ and æ can be written using the key combination CTRL + SHIFT + & followed by A or a respectively. On US - International keyboards, Æ is accessible with the combination of AltGr + z. In X, AltGr + A is often mapped to æ / Æ, or a Compose key sequence Compose + a + e can be used. For more information, see Unicode input. In all versions of the Mac OS ( Systems 1 through 7, Mac OS 8 and 9, and the current OS X ), the following key combinations are used : æ : Option + ' ( apostrophe key ), Æ : Option + Shift + '. On the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, as well as phones running Google 's Android OS or Windows Mobile OS and on the Kindle Touch and Paperwhite, æ and Æ are accessed by holding down `` A '' until a small menu is displayed. The Icelandic keyboard layout has a separate key for Æ ( and Ð, Þ and Ö ). Character Æ æ Ǣ ǣ Ǽ ǽ Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE LATIN SMALL LETTER AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE WITH MACRON LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH MACRON LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE WITH ACUTE LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH ACUTE Encodings decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 198 U + 00C6 230 U + 00E6 482 U + 01E2 483 U + 01E3 508 U + 01FC 509 U + 01FD UTF - 8 195 134 C3 86 195 166 C3 A6 199 162 C7 A2 199 163 C7 A3 199 188 C7 BC 199 189 C7 BD Numeric character reference & # 198 ; & # xC6 ; & # 230 ; & # xE6 ; & # 482 ; & # x1E2 ; & # 483 ; & # x1E3 ; & # 508 ; & # x1FC ; & # 509 ; & # x1FD ; Named character reference &AElig ; &aelig ; Cyrillic Main article : 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 Æ ( Cyrillic ) ae ( digraph ) Å Ä E caudata Ø o Œ Near - open front unrounded vowel ( represented by æ in the IPA ) Ə Ansuz rune List of words that may be spelled with a ligature Anvae References Jump up ^ James Morwood ( 1999 ). Latin Grammar, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 860199 - 9, p. 3 Jump up ^ The spelling medieval is given priority in both Oxford and Cambridge Advanced Learner 's Dictionary. Accessed September 22, 2014. Jump up ^ Merriam - Webster Advanced Learner 's Dictionary. Accessed September 22, 2014. Jump up ^ Everson, Michael ; et al. ( 2002 - 03 - 20 ). `` L2 / 02 - 141 : Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS '' ( PDF ). Robert Bringhurst ( 2002 ). The Elements of Typographic Style, page 271. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0 - 88179 - 205 - 5 External links Look up Category : English terms spelled with Æ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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Question: what is the name of the ae symbol
Answer: ash