Hwair
Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic alphabet, Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English language, English by the inverted ''Wh (digraph), wh''-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) used to transcribe Gothic. Name The name of the Gothic letter is recorded by Alcuin in Codex Vindobonensis 795 as ''uuaer''. The meaning of the name was probably "cauldron, pot" (cf. ' "skull"); comparative reconstruction shows ("a kind of dish or pot") in Proto-Indo-European. There was no Elder Futhark rune for the phoneme, so that unlike those of most Gothic letters, the name does not continue the name of a rune (but see Qairþra). Sound Gothic ' is the reflex of Common Germanic , which in turn continues the Indo-European Labialized velar consonant, labiovelar after it underwent Grimm's law. The same phoneme in Old English and Old High German is spelled ''hw''. Transliteration The Gothic letter is transliterated with the Latin liga ...
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