# ø

| ø | U+00F8, &#248; LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE |
| ← ÷ [U+00F7] | Latin-1 Supplement | ù → [U+00F9] |
| 𐞢 | U+107A2, &#67490; MODIFIER LETTER SMALL O WITH STROKE |
| ← 𐞡 [U+107A1] | Latin Extended-F | 𐞣 → [U+107A3] |
| ꬾ | U+AB3E, &#43838; LATIN SMALL LETTER BLACKLETTER O WITH STROKE |
| ← ꬽ [U+AB3D] | Latin Extended-E | ꬿ → [U+AB3F] |

## Translingual
### Pronunciation

* IPA:(file)

### Letter

ø (upper case Ø)
* A vowel in some Scandinavian alphabets and an umlaut in eastern Middle Low German handwriting.
** (humorous) Sometimes inserted in English or other languages in place of the o, for the purpose of imitating Scandinavian languages.
*** 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (movie)
    [These comments are found at the beginning of the movie, in the middle of the credits. Not all o's are rendered as ø's.]
    Nø realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with her sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge — her brother-in-law — an Oslo dentist and star of many Nowegian mørvies: The Høt Lands of an Oslo Dentist, Fillings of Passion, The Huge Møllars of Horst Nordfink...
*** 1975, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Asterix and the Great Crossing (original French title: La Grande Traversée), page 41
    [original French text] Øbsen: Åh, te vøice enfin, Kerøsen! Espèce de fåinéånt, qu'Ødin te måudisse mille et mille føis! Åvånssen: C'est... C'est Øbsen le Terrifiånt, le chef de nøtre clån![official English translation] Ødiuscømpårissen: Øh, there yøu åre åt låst, Herendethelessen! Yøu låzy blighter! By Ødin, where the Niflheim håve yøu been? Steptøånssen: It's... It's... Ødiuscømpårissen the Terrifying, the chief øf øur tribe!

### Symbol

ø
* (IPA) a close-mid front rounded vowel.
* (superscript ⟨𐞢⟩, IPA) [ø]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [ø].

#### Usage notes

U+AB3E ⟨ꬾ⟩ is a spurious variant of ⟨ø⟩.

#### See also

* 2 (X-SAMPA equivalent)

## Central Mazahua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ/

### Letter

ø (upper case Ø)
* A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Analogical after the other names of vowel letters in the Roman alphabet.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈøˀ]

#### Letter

ø (lower case, upper case Ø)
* The penultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.

##### Inflection
#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) bogstav; A a (Á á), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ý ý), Z z, Æ æ (Ǽ ǽ), Ø ø (Ǿ ǿ), Å å
* Ø (bogstav) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse ey, from Proto-Germanic *awjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”), see å.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈøˀ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -øːˀ

#### Noun

ø c (singular definite øen, plural indefinite øer)
* island

##### Derived terms

* halvø
* udenøs
* udenøskommende
* øgruppe

#### See also

* ø on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

#### References

* “ø,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /øː/

### Letter

ø (upper case Ø)
* The twenty-ninth letter of the Faroese alphabet, called ø and written in the Latin script.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) bókstavur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Ð ð, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, Y y, Ý ý, Æ æ, Ø ø

### Noun

ø n (genitive singular øs, plural ø)
* name of the letter ø

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

## Norwegian
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /øː/
* (phoneme): IPA: /øː/, /œ/
* Audio:(file)

### Letter

ø (upper case Ø)
* The twenty-eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

## Old Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [øː]

### Etymology 1
#### Letter

ø
* a letter of the Old Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

##### Usage notes

* In some transliterated modern text the ø has been replaced by its Swedish descendant ö.

##### Descendants

* Swedish: oͤ
** Swedish: ö

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Norse ey.

#### Noun

ø
* island
** c. 1350, Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Codex Bureanus, 1884–1973, quoted in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, page 1160:sände domicianus han tel patmos ödomicianus sent him to the island of patmos
** (year missing), Knut Fredrik Söderwall, (title missing, PK), 1884–1973, quoted in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, page 1160:birka han laa vppa ena öö j mälar som hether birkööBirka he laid out on one of the islands in Mälarn which is called Birk island

##### Descendants

* Swedish: ö

#### See also

* øland (“island”)

## Seneca
### Conjunction

ø
* Abbreviation of koh.

## Southern Sami
### Alternative forms

* (Sweden): ö

### Letter

ø (upper case Ø)
* (Norway) The twenty-fourth letter of the Southern Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ï ï, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, Y y, Æ æ, Ä ä, Ø ø, Ö ö, Å å