Hwair

Form of the Gothic letter
Some words with Hwair, in Joseph Wright's Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910)

Hwair (also ƕair, huuair, hvair) is the name of 𐍈, the Gothic letter expressing the [] or [ʍ] sound (reflected in English by the inverted wh-spelling for [ʍ]). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature ƕ (capital Ƕ) used to transcribe Gothic.


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