Vend (Ꝩ, ꝩ) is a letter of
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...
. It was used to represent the sounds , , and .
It was related to and probably derived from the
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
letter
Wynn
Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, ƿynn, and ƿen) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound .
History The letter "W"
While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph , ...
of the
Runic alphabet
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(ᚹ) and later the
Latin alphabet
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(Ƿ ƿ), except that the bowl was open on the top, not being connected to the stem, which made it somewhat resemble a letter
Y. It was eventually replaced with v or u for most writings.
Vend in Unicode and HTML entities
The upper and lowercase Vend were standardized in April 2008 as part of the Latin Extended-D block of Unicode 5.1
References
Ꝩ
Palaeographic letters
Latin-script letters
Runology
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