ø

A medieval variation of the letter o used to indicate a somehow “deviant” pronunciation (for example, nasalization in Old Polish). In eastern Middle Low German it came to indicate umlaut, and was adopted in some Scandinavian alphabets for this function.

• IPA:

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ø (upper case Ø)

1. (humorous) A vowel letter of the Dano-Norwegian alphabet, sometimes used to replace o in other languages to imitate Scandinavian languages.
   • 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (movie)

     [These comments are found at the beginning of the movie, in the middle of the credits. Not all o's are rendered as ø's.]

     Nø realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge — her brother-in-law — an Oslo dentist and star of many Nowegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Møllars of Horst Nordfink"...

   • 1975, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Asterix and the Great Crossing (original French title: La Grande Traversée), page 41

     [original French text]
     Øbsen: Åh, te vøice enfin, Kerøsen! Espèce de fåinéånt, qu'Ødin te måudisse mille et mille føis!
     Åvånssen: C'est... C'est Øbsen le Terrifiånt, le chef de nøtre clån!

     [official English translation]
     Ødiuscømpårissen: Øh, there yøu åre åt låst, Herendethelessen! Yøu låzy blighter! By Ødin, where the Niflheim håve yøu been?
     Steptøånssen: It's... It's... Ødiuscømpårissen the Terrifying, the chief øf øur tribe!

ø

1. (IPA) a close-mid front rounded vowel.
2. (superscript ⟨𐞢⟩, IPA) [ø]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [ø].
3. (music) half-diminished.

U+AB3E ⟨ꬾ⟩ is a spurious variant of ⟨ø⟩.

• 2 (X-SAMPA equivalent)

• IPA^(key): /ɔ/

ø (lower case, upper case Ø)

1. A letter of the Central Mazahua alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

Analogical after the other names of vowel letters in the Roman alphabet.

• IPA^(key): [ˈøˀ]

ø (lower case, upper case Ø)

1. The penultimate letter of the Danish alphabet.

• (Latin-script letters) bogstav; A a (Á á), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í), J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o (Ó ó), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú), V v, W w, X x, Y y (Ý ý), Z z, Æ æ (Ǽ ǽ), Ø ø (Ǿ ǿ), Å å

• Ø (bogstav) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Old Norse ey, from Proto-Germanic *awjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”), see å.

• IPA^(key): [ˈøˀ]

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• Rhymes: -øːˀ

ø c (singular definite øen, plural indefinite øer)

2. island

• ø on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• “ø,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /øː/

ø (lower case, upper case Ø)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Faroese alphabet, called ø and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) bókstavur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, Y y, Ý ý, Æ æ, Ø ø

ø n (genitive singular øs, plural ø)

1. name of the letter ø

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /øː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /øː/, /œ/

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ø (lower case, upper case Ø)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• IPA^(key): [øː]

ø (lower case, upper case Ø)

1. a letter of the Old Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• In some transliterated modern text the ø has been replaced by its Swedish descendant ö.

• Swedish: oͤ
  • Swedish: ö

Inherited from Old Norse ey.

ø

1. island
   • c. 1350, Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Codex Bureanus, 1884–1973, quoted in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, page 1160:

     sände domicianus han tel patmos ö

     domicianus sent him to the island of patmos

   • (year missing), Knut Fredrik Söderwall, (title missing, PK), 1884–1973, quoted in Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, page 1160:

     birka han laa vppa ena öö j mälar som hether birköö

     Birka he laid out on one of the islands in Mälarn which is called Birk island

• Swedish: ö

• øland (“island”)

ø

1. abbreviation of koh

• (Sweden): ö

ø (lower case, upper case Ø)

1. (Norway) The twenty-fourth letter of the Southern Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ï ï, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, Y y, Æ æ, Ä ä, Ø ø, Ö ö, Å å