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See also: Appendix:Variations of "et" and ヿ

⁊ U+204A, ⁊
TIRONIAN SIGN ET
← ⁉
[U+2049] 		General Punctuation ⁋ →
[U+204B]

Translingual
Tironian notes.
Contemporary usage in Ireland

Etymology

A stylized form of Latin et (“and”); part of the system of Tironian notes, shorthand credited to Cicero’s scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro from first century BC. Compare to &, of same meaning and similar derivation.

Symbol

⁊

  1. Tironian sign representing et (“and”)

Usage notes

Found especially in Old English, Old Irish, and Middle Irish manuscripts. Still used in Ireland, as of 2010; was used in blackletter texts as late as 1821, otherwise unused.

In Old English manuscripts, it stood not only for the conjunction and, ond (“and”), but also for the prefix and-, ond-; thus andswaru (“answer”) could be written ⁊swaru.

Synonyms

Descendants

See also
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