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ø (upper case Ø)

1. A vowel in some Scandinavian alphabets and an umlaut in eastern Middle Low German handwriting.
   1. (humorous) Sometimes inserted in English or other languages in place of the o, for the purpose of imitating 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 her sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge — her brother-in-law — an Oslo dentist and star of many Nowegian mørvies: The Høt Lands 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].

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

• 2 (X-SAMPA equivalent)

• IPA^(key): /ɔ/

ø (upper case Ø)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

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)

1. island

• ø on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• “ø,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /øː/

ø (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 (upper case Ø)

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

• IPA^(key): [øː]

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 (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