Did you mayhaps mean one of these? ohone, orgone, ozone
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. orthography : A hook-shaped diacritical mark attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
Etymologies
- From the Polish word ogonek ("little tail"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In 1979, however, two things happened almost simultaneously – a Polish Pope was elected: John Paul II, whose Polish family name included the barred l – Wojtyła, and the Solidarity movement was constantly in the news, led by a man whose name not only included a barred l, but also an ogonek reverse cedilla under a vowel letter, indicating that it is a nasalised vowel: Lech Wałęsa.”
“Note that the Kazakh-Cyrillic alphabet has two k's, one identical to the Russian k, the other a k with a cédille/ogonek.”
“The name of Czech composer František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704-1774) makes one immediately think, "What, no umlaut, macron, or ogonek?”
“(like ogonek, cyracc) and possibly some indirectly necessary things that you'll probably know about them if you use them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ogonek’.
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Additional 250 Spelling Words
Words for the diehard intermediate and advanced spellers
facetiae, sagittary, anthophilous, hydromancy, pandect, carillonneur, tabbouleh, litterateur, windgall, pinguid, tressure, moderne and 238 more...
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Hooks
hook, Captain Hook, shook, grappling hook, meat hook, pruning hook, hooks, hook 'em horns, Hook 'em Horns, sky-hook, hook, line, and s..., hook, line and si... and 66 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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Lessons of Wordie / Wordnik
Words and concepts I learned on Wordie, or happened upon as I roamed through dictionaries and websites seeking ammunition.
usquebaugh, baugh, plunderbunny, plinthiform, hendiatris, buckjumper, peripetia, trenchmore, antifogmatic, felon, whitlow, paronychia and 152 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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I Like the Sound of That
Cool words
apoplexy, theriomorphic, therianthropic, folksonomy, hoochie coochie, noxzema, steeplechase, dumbwaiter, faute de mieux, cathode, okeydokey, protocarnivorous and 90 more...
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characters
asperand - @
tilde - ~
forward slash,virgule,solidus - /
pilcrow- ¶
obelus - ÷
tittle - A small diacritic mark, such as an accent, vowel mark, or dot over an i.
asperand, tittle, octothorp, octothorpe, hash mark, pound sign, number sign, ogonek, serif, ceriph, seriph
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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a little carrot over the 'a'
being the names of diacritical marks
cedilla, accent, caron, breve, circumflex, macron, diaeresis, dot, hook, horn, ogonek, ring and 5 more...
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The Glyphs & How to Name Them
Being a list of the proper names of glyphs, both exotic and common, found in the typographer's toolbox.
ogonek, macron, horn, hook, dot, diaeresis, umlaut, circumflex, cedilla, inverted breve, breve, double grave, grave and 60 more...
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Diacritical Marks
breve, cedilla, circumflex, hacek, macron, tilde, umlaut, dieresis, acute accent, grave accent, inverted breve, caron and 5 more...
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qreen-tailed
in the Century Dictionary definition of 'menhaden' there is a misprint - I speculate- o 'qreen-tailed'for green-tailed. BUT there are alot of odd-tails out there..............
uropygium, hypural, nudicaudate, plesiosaur, macrural, curvicaudate, homocercal, jabiru, xeme, sirenian, dugong, saururaceae and 56 more...
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mikefats's Words
proletariat, bamboozle, cyan, kerning, hematoma, sordid, crass, ligature, ogonek, doppelganger, philistine, encumbent and 3 more...
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Punctuation Junction
titlo, apostrophe, tilde, colon, hyphen, umlaut, circumflex, grave, acute, breve, caron, macron and 13 more...
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Quite a Character
Marks, symbols, and funny squiggly lines in typography.
tilde, diacritic, apostrophe, colon, comma, ellipsis, hyphen, semicolon, asterisk, at, backslash, umlaut and 16 more...
Tweets
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kjola "ogonek" in Polish is a diminutive form of the word "ogon", which means "tail" :)
Jul 8, 2009
treeseed Ogonek (like a backwards cedilla, on the lower-right of a character). Used in Polish on the letters `a' and `e' to change their quality and nasalise them. - Everything.com Apr 30, 2008