Meaning & use
Eth
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A letter (Ð, ð) used in Old English, Icelandic, and phonetic transcription to represent a voiced "th" sound.
See it in a sentence
The word "the" would once have been written with an eth rather than "th."
Icelandic still uses eth alongside thorn to distinguish two different "th" sounds.
A note on using this word
Also spelled "edh," this letter disappeared from English spelling by the late Middle Ages but survives in Icelandic and linguistic notation.
Words with a similar meaning
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