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-pje for words ending in -m: boom (tree) → boompje (but bloemetje if the meaning is bouquet of flowers; see below) -kje for words ending in -ing: koning ( king ) → konin kje (the 'ng'-sound transforms into 'nk'), but vondeling → vondeling etje ( foundling )
Note also wholly (from whole), which may be pronounced either with a single l sound (like holy) or with a doubled l. [ 5 ] When the suffix is added to an adjective ending in a vowel letter followed by the letter l , it results in an adverb spelled with -lly, for example, the adverb centrally from the adjective central, but without a geminated l ...
Eth in Arial and Times New Roman. Eth (/ ɛ ð / edh, uppercase: Ð , lowercase: ð ; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English, [1] is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian.
words end in consonants more frequently than in Finnish, word-final b, d, v being particularly typical; letter d is much more common in Estonian than in Finnish, and in Estonian it is often the last letter of the word (plural suffix), which it never is in Finnish
Both Mac and Mc are sometimes written M ac and M c (with superscript ac or c). Mc is pronounced Mac in some names. Ni , Nic – ( Irish ) "daughter of", from Irish "iníon" meaning "daughter" [ 4 ]
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet.A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
In many cases, especially in suffixes, two identical consonant sounds merge into one sound in pronunciation, e.g. cenný [t͡sɛniː] ⓘ ('valuable'), měkký [mɲɛkiː] ⓘ ('soft'). In prefixes and composite words, lengthened or doubled pronunciation (gemination) is obvious.