Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The Middle English letter ȝ, used to represent the sound (y) and some velar consonants similar to the ch in German Bach and the r in French France.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Origin uncertain. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, possibly from Old English īw, ēoh, yew. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(For þe same reason, we dropped þe old letters wynn - ƿ - and yogh - ȝ - þough þe latter survives in þe name of Sir Menȝies Campbell.)”
“Thus, I have devised a new health plan I am calling "triple-yogh days.”
Introducing Triple-Yogh Days: Complete with a Random Bullets of Catch-up Preamble
“Maybe yogh, too, if we can all agree on what sound it represents.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recovering the lost English language:
“The printed linenotes almost always use yogh (ȝ) for insular”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“Refer to the image for the black letter poems as the yogh/ezh & thorn/h characters are difficult to distinguish.”
“It has been variously transcribed as “z” or “ȝ” (yogh) according to context, but appears to be the identical letter every time:”
“To maximize accessibility, the character "3" is used in this e-text to represent the yogh, e.g., "3ong”
“Ȝ, ȝ (yogh) ⁊ (Tironian ampersand) þ̵ (thorn with stroke -- also see below) ę (e with tail, “e caudata”) ẏ (y with over-dot)”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
“ȝ, ſ (yogh, long s) ɳ, łł (n with curl, crossed l: see below) φ (Greek phi: see below) ʷ (small raised “w”)”
“The Anglo-Saxon yogh symbol is here represented by [y].]”
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yogh’.
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phrontistery-y
from phrontistery.info
yabba, yabby, yachty, yad, yaff, yaffingale, yag, yager, yahrzeit, yair, yajna, yakhdan and 63 more...
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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one-chunk
deft, ept, eft, ilk, gad, thorp, fug, hwæt, surd, scraunched, whence, hence and 19 more...
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Metagraphonetry
This sentence no verb.
dystmesis, boustrophedonic, guillemet, gostak, tmesis, palimpsest, yogh, trope, conceit, shibboleth, spink, dosh and 6 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
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kewpid Ȝ
Why Men�?ies is pronounced Ming-ISS, not Men-zeez, à la the Australian PM. Nov 3, 2007