Where does “Æ” come from?

Æ (Danish) comes from Old Danish thæn.

Æ (Danish): The antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet

Definitions

  1. The antepenultimate letter of the Danish alphabet

Ancestry of “Æ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Danishthæn—
Every word from Old Danish thæn →