e caudata (English, noun)
expansion: e caudata (plural e caudatae)
Senses:
glosses: A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.
Used in Latin for a long ē that represents an etymological ⟨ae⟩ or ⟨oe⟩ diphthong, both of which diphthongs had phonologically merged into ⟨ē⟩ by the early Mediaeval period.
glosses: A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.
Used in Middle and Early Modern Irish for ⟨e⟩, ⟨ae⟩, and ⟨ea⟩.
glosses: A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.
Used in Old Norse for /æ(ː)/, representing the Proto-Germanic *a (as opposed to the Proto-Germanic *e).
Forms:
form: e caudatae
tags: plural
form: e-caudata
tags: alternative