noun
- A letter of the Old English and Icelandic alphabets, representing a voiced dental fricative sound (ð).
Usage: Also called edh.; Historical and linguistic term.
Examples
- The letter eth appears in Old English manuscripts.
- In Icelandic, eth is still used in modern writing.
- Linguists study eth to understand the phonetic history of English.
- The symbol ð represents eth in phonetic transcription.
- Medieval scribes wrote eth with a distinctive crossed d shape.