Editing Circumflex (section)

==== Norwegian ====
In [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], the circumflex differentiates ''fôr'' "lining, fodder" from the preposition ''for''. From a historical point of view, the circumflex also indicates that the word used to be spelled with the letter ''[[ð]]'' in [[Old Norse language|Old Norse]]{{spaced ndash}}for example, ''fôr'' is derived from  ''fóðr'', ''lêr'' 'leather' from ''leðr'', and ''vêr'' "weather, ram" from ''veðr'' (both ''lêr'' and ''vêr'' only occur in the [[Nynorsk]] spelling; in [[Bokmål]] these words are spelled ''lær'' and ''vær''). After the ''ð'' disappeared, it was replaced by a ''[[d]]'' (''fodr, vedr'').