eth

n. a letter (Ð, ð) used in Old English and modern Icelandic to represent the 'th' sound in 'father'.

n. a character (capital Ð, lowercase ð) representing the voiced dental fricative in Old English, Icelandic, and Faroese orthography.

“The word 'then' starts with a sound that is written as an eth in the phonetic alphabet.”

“Students of Old English must learn to distinguish between the letters thorn and eth, which were often used interchangeably by medieval scribes.”

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n. a symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) that shows how to pronounce the 'th' sound in 'this'.

n. the symbol /ð/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet used to denote a voiced dental fricative.

“The dictionary uses an eth symbol to show the pronunciation of the word 'breathe'.”

“The IPA uses the eth character to represent the voiced dental fricative, contrasting it with the theta symbol used for the voiceless equivalent.”

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