e caudata

Meanings

1. A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.
2. 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.
3. Used in Middle and Early Modern Irish for ⟨e⟩, ⟨ae⟩, and ⟨ea⟩.
4. Used in Old Norse for /æ(ː)/, representing the Proto-Germanic *a (as opposed to the Proto-Germanic *e).

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ē caudāta (literally “tailed e”).

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