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- noun A letter of the
Runic alphabet, present in the ElderFuþark (ᛇ) and the Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc (ᛇ, calledēoh ) representingIPA : /eo/ or /eːo/ and associated with theyew .
Etymologies
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Two variants of the word are reconstructed for Proto-Germanic, *īhaz (*ē2haz, from the Proto-Indo-European root *eikos), continued in Old English as ēoh and īh, and *īwaz (*ē2waz, from the Proto-Indo-European root *eiwos), continued in Old English as īw (whence yew). The latter is possibly an early loan from the Celtic.
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