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Thorn (letter)
Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Gothic, Old Norse and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph ''th,'' except in Iceland where it survives. The letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark and was called ''thorn'' in the Anglo-Saxon and ''thorn'' or ''thurs'' (a category of beings in Germanic Paganism) in the Scandinavian rune poems. Its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name is ''Thurisaz''.
It is pronounced as either a voiceless dental fricative or the voiced counterpart of it . However, in modern Icelandic, it is pronounced as a laminal voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative ,〔, cited in 〕 similar to ''th'' as in the English word ''thick'', or a (usually apical) voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative ,〔 similar to ''th'' as in the English word ''the''. Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth ; however, may occur as an allophone of , and written , when it appears in an unstressed pronoun or adverb after a voiced sound.
Typographically, the lower case thorn character is unusual in that it has both an ascender and a descender.
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