Re: CHAT of oghams & runes (was Celtic alphabet? )

Raymond Brown wrote:
>At 4:24 pm -0400 11/4/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >Raymond Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>At 3:08 pm -0400 10/4/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>[snip]
> >> >That should be three _ ttir_ - there were only 24 runes!
> >>
> >>Yes, sorry - it should be three (the Old English did add a 4th, but that
> >>was much later).   The first symbol when I wrote the email was the a-e
> >>ligature (Old English 'ash'), not the upper case E with a hat on it!
> >>{sigh}
> >
> >When I sent the above, it was a lower-case ash, copied from your mail ...
> >what does this "Ê" get thru like? (sent as lower-case ash)
>
>That lower-case ash gets thru as upper-case e-circumflex. But if you look
>above:
>"That should be three _ ttir_ - there were only 24 runes!"
>
>the letter you sent as lower-case ash last time and I received as
>upper-case e-circumflex, has now just become a blank!
The wonders of the electronic age ...

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>At 4:31 pm -0400 11/4/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >Daniel wrote:
>[snip]
> >>
> >>Um. I haven't followed this thread, so I'm not quite sure
> >>what you're talking about, but _Êtt_ (fem.pl. _Êttir_) surely
> >>means 'family, dynasty'. Always has afaik. "Eight" is _·tta_
> >>with an |·|, not an |Ê|.
>
>So eight is _·tta_ with a dot as first letter  ;)
That was a-circumflex when I got if from Daniel. At any rate, it's a long a
sound; /a:/. Later >[o:] which shortened before the geminate to yield modern
Swedish _åtta_, which includes yet another letter that won't get thru!
(a-ring)

                                                   Andreas

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