š

Symbol

 * 1)  a voiceless postalveolar fricative (IPA [&thinsp;&thinsp;]).

Noun

 * 1) lake
 * 2) garden with a pool

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords.

Etymology
Common European letter for this sound, apparently first used in Czech; see Š on Wikipedia.

Usage notes

 * In the Finnish alphabet, š is a variant of.
 * Used only in loanwords and transcribing foreign names.
 * Often written as s or sh.

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter




Letter

 * 1) The 25th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by  and followed by.