ȳ
See also: Appendix:Variations of "y"
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ȳ
- (lexicography) An orthographic ⟨y⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the PRICE vowel, as in the word "lyre".
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ȳ (upper case Ȳ)
- A letter of the Old English alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Usage notes edit
The vowel letter y marked for length. Long vowels are not consistently distinguished in Old English manuscripts. They generally are in modern editions.