The first letter ‘p’ is followed by a backwards loop which stands for ‘re’, and then by a long letter ‘s’ which looks in the first example a bit like a modern ‘l’, and in the others a bit like a ‘f’.

Let's explore the sounds of Old English, starting with the consonants. The consonants below are categorised by their place of articulation. You can select any of the coloured IPA symbols in …

2023年6月4日 · It might be a coincidence, but ancient and modern Greek alphabet has two forms of S, although the use doeesn't match that in older English. This isn't really an English …

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The long s, ſ , also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter s , found mostly in works from the late 8th to early 19th centuries. It replaced one or both [ a ] of …

When at the beginning or end of a word, or when adjacent to an unvoiced consonant, f, ð/þ, and s are unvoiced: /f/, /θ/, /s/, respectively. When falling between two vowels or adjacent to a voiced …

Old English phonology is the pronunciation system of Old English, the Germanic language spoken on Great Britain from around 450 to 1150 and attested in a body of written texts from the …

Letters of the Old English alphabet. Christianity brought with it the Latin alphabet, which was adapted to fit the sounds of Old English. a æ b c d ð e f g h i l m n o p r s t þ u ƿ x y. A Æ B C …

Old English was the West Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the 5th and 11th centuries. Speakers of Old English called their language Englisc, …

Old English is a West Germanic language, and developed out of North Sea Germanic dialects from the 5th century. It came to be spoken over most of the territory of the Anglo-Saxon …