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Æ
Æ
(
minuscule
:
æ
) is a
grapheme
named aesc or ash, formed from the letters
a
and
e
. Originally a
ligature
representing a
Latin
diphthong
, it has been promoted to the full status of a
letter
in the alphabets of some languages, including
Norwegian
,
Danish
,
Icelandic
and
Faroese
. As a letter of the
Old English Latin alphabet
, it was called
æsc
("ash tree") after the
Anglo-Saxon futhorc
rune
(), which it
transliterated
; its traditional name in English is still
ash
. It was also used in
Old Swedish
before being changed to
ä
. Variants include
Ǣ ǣ Ǽ ǽ
.
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