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edh

A form of eth — A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.

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nounedh (plural edhs)

plural edhs

alternativeAlternative form of eth.
The Faeroese language is a dialect of Icelandic and, like Icelandic, employes the letter edh (Ð ð). Unlike Icelandic, however the Faeroese ð has the sound of y (as in "yes") before i, v before u, and is silent in all other cases.
1964, Romanization Guide, United States, Department of State, Office of the Geographer, page 10
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The Romans uses th to write the Greek letter theta. In Old English the sound /th/ was usually spelled with the thorn or edh, very rarely with th. Under the influence of the Norman scribes the runic thorn and edh died away, being replaced in time by the th.
1988, D. W. Cummings, American English Spelling: An Informal Description, page 210

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APA

edh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edh

MLA

“edh.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edh. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “edh,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/edh.

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