Thorn with stroke

(minuscule: ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for Old English "þæt" (Modern English "that"), as well as Old Norse "þor-", the "-þan"/"-ðan" in síðan[1], "þat", "þæt", and "þess". In Old English texts, the stroke tended to be more slanted, while in Old Norse texts it was straight. In Middle English times, the ascender of the þ was reduced (making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn, ƿ), which caused the thorn with stroke abbreviation ( ) to be replaced with a thorn with a small t above the letter ( ).

Unicode encodes as U+A764 latin capital letter thorn with stroke (HTML: Ꝥ ), and at U+A765 latin small letter thorn with stroke (HTML: ꝥ ).

A thorn with a stroke on the descender also exists. The capital form is at codepoint U+A766 latin capital letter thorn with stroke through descender (HTML: Ꝧ ), and the minuscule form is at U+A767 latin small letter thorn with stroke through descender (HTML: ꝧ ).

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References

  1. ^ AM 655, p1 recto, lines 4, 14, & 17 [1]
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letters using stroke sign ( ◌̵ )
Ⱥⱥ Ƀƀ Ȼȼ Đđ Ɇɇ Ǥǥ Ꞡꞡ Ħħ Ɨ ɨ Ɉɉ Ꝁꝁ Ꞣꞣ Łł Ꞥꞥ Øø Ᵽᵽ Ꝗꝗ Ɍɍ Ꞧꞧ Ꞩꞩ Ŧŧ Ʉʉ Ɏɏ Ƶƶ Ꝥꝥ
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