Definitions

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  • noun A letter rendering the print sequence -ar-
  • noun ä, æ (in foreign words)
  • noun ä
  • noun æ
  • noun A letter rendering the print digraph zs
  • noun z
  • noun é
  • noun ė
  • noun є (ie)
  • noun ѓ (Macedonian)
  • noun آ‎ (ʾā)
  • noun ā
  • noun (nya)
  • noun The rime yao/-iao
  • noun The onset di- or the rime -ēi
  • noun The rime a
  • noun The rime aam
  • noun ă
  • noun the vowel ั medial short a
  • noun  (ya)
  • noun ɛ
  • noun @
  • noun (Used to mark the end of a verse.)
  • noun archaic (French Braille, in the context of the number sign ) (the square-root sign)
  • noun )

Etymologies

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Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet, or for the equivalents of those letters in a non-Latin script.

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