Vend (letter)
Letter of written Old Norse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vend (Ꝩ, ꝩ) is a letter of Old Norse. It was used to represent the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/.[citation needed]
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Ꝩ | |
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Ꝩ ꝩ | |
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Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and Logographic |
Language of origin | Old Norse language |
Phonetic usage | [u] [v] [w] /vɛnd/ |
Unicode codepoint | U+A768, U+A769 |
History | |
Development | ᚹ
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Time period | ~1100 to ~1200 |
Descendants | None |
Sisters | Ƿ ƿ |
Transliteration equivalents | u, v, w |
Other | |
Other letters commonly used with | u, v, w |
Writing direction | Left-to-right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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It was related to and probably derived from the Old English letter Wynn of the Runic alphabet (ᚹ) and later the Latin alphabet (Ƿ ƿ), except that the bowl was open on the top, not being connected to the stem, which made it somewhat resemble a letter Y. It was eventually replaced with v or u for most writings.