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Ꝥ (
minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a
scribal abbreviation Scribal abbreviations or sigla (singular: siglum) are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse. In modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanica ...
common in the
Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...
. It was used for ang, þæt (Modern English "
that ''That'' is an English language word used for several grammatical purposes. These include use as an adjective, conjunction, pronoun, adverb, and intensifier; it has distance from the speaker, as opposed to words like ''this''. The word did not ori ...
"), as well as non, þor-, the / in , , , and . In Old English texts, the stroke tended to be more slanted, while in Old Norse texts it was straight. In Middle English times, the ascender of the ''þ'' was reduced (making it similar to the Old English letter
Wynn Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, ƿynn, and ƿen) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . History The letter "W" While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph , ...
, ƿ), which caused the thorn with stroke abbreviation ( ) to be replaced with a thorn with a small ''t'' above the letter ( ). Unicode encodes Ꝥ as , and ꝥ at . A thorn with a stroke on the ''descender'' also exists, used historically as an abbreviation for the word "through". The codepoints are , and .


References

* * * Andrew West
What's that?
an article about the proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS
Unicode Character 'Latin capital letter thorn with stroke' (U+A764)


Latin-script letters {{typ-stub