Editing Eth (section)

{{short description|Letter of the Latin alphabet; used in Icelandic, Faroese, and Old English}}
{{Redirect|Edh|other uses|Eth (disambiguation)|and|Edh (disambiguation)}}
{{Redirect2|Ð|ð|the similar looking letter|D with stroke|the sound that is represented by ⟨ð⟩ in the IPA|Voiced dental fricative}}
{{Redirect|-D|the keyboard symbol|Emoticon}}
{{Technical reasons|:-D|the keyboard symbol|Emoticon}}
{{Infobox grapheme
|name=Ð
|letter=Ð ð
|image=File:Latin letter eth.svg
|imageclass=skin-invert-image
|imagesize=200px
|imagealt=Writing cursive forms of Ð
|script=[[Latin script]]
|type=[[Alphabet]]
|typedesc=ic and [[Logogram|logographic]]
|language=[[Old English]]<br>[[Old Norse]]
|phonemes=[{{IPA link|ð}}]<br>[{{IPA link| θ}}]<br>[{{IPA link|ð̠}}]<br>{{IPAc-en|'|ɛ|ð}}
|unicode=U+00D0, U+00F0
|alphanumber=
|number=
|fam1=<hiero>K1</hiero><hiero>K2</hiero><hiero>O31</hiero>
|fam2=[[Image:Proto-semiticD-02.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Dalet]]
|fam3=[[File:PhoenicianD-01.png|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Phoenician Dalet]]
|fam4=[[Image:Phoenician daleth.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Dalet]]
|fam5=[[Delta (letter)|Δ δ]]
|fam6=[[𐌃]]
|fam7=[[D|D d]]
|fam8=[[Insular script|Ꝺ ꝺ]]
|usageperiod=~800 to present
|sisters=None
|equivalents=d
|associates=[[List of Latin-script digraphs#Ð|th, dh]]
|direction=Left-to-Right
}}
{{Orthography notation}}
[[File:Latin letter Ð.svg|class=skin-invert-image|thumb|alt=Lower case and upper case of Eth ({{angbr|Ð}}, {{angbr|ð}} expressed by a sans serif single-stroke-width font and a serif variable-stroke-width font|Eth in [[Arial]] and [[Times New Roman]]]]
 
'''Eth''' ({{IPAc-en|ɛ|ð|}} {{respell|edh}}, [[uppercase]]: ⟨'''Ð'''⟩, [[lowercase]]: ⟨'''ð'''⟩; also spelled '''edh''' or '''eð'''), known as '''{{lang|ang|ðæt}}''' in [[Old English]],<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Marsden |title=The Cambridge Old English Reader |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2004 |page=xxix }}</ref> is a [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] used in Old English, [[Middle English]], [[Icelandic orthography|Icelandic]], [[Faroese language#Alphabet|Faroese]] (in which it is called {{lang|fo|edd}}), and [[Elfdalian]].

It was also used in [[Scandinavia]] during the [[Middle Ages]], but was subsequently replaced with {{angbr|[[dh (digraph)|dh]]}}, and later {{angbr|[[d]]}}.

It is often [[transliteration|transliterated]] as {{angbr|d}}.

The lowercase version has been adopted to represent a [[voiced dental fricative]] ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPAblink|ð}}) in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]].