User:Chuck Entz/a/letter

Etymology 1
Modification of capital.

Etymology
The letter name is from, from , ultimately from. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced the futhorc letter beginning in the 7th century, and partially also.

Pronunciation

 * The current pronunciation resulted from the Great Vowel Shift. Before the early part of the 17th century, the pronunciation was similar to that in other languages.
 * , etc.
 * The current pronunciation resulted from the Great Vowel Shift. Before the early part of the 17th century, the pronunciation was similar to that in other languages.
 * , etc.
 * The current pronunciation resulted from the Great Vowel Shift. Before the early part of the 17th century, the pronunciation was similar to that in other languages.
 * , etc.
 * , etc.

Usage notes

 * In English, the letter a usually denotes the near-open front unrounded vowel, as in pad, the open back unrounded vowel as in father, the mid-central vowel  when unstressed as in about, or, when followed by another vowel, the diphthong , as in ace.
 * A is the third most common letter in English.

Derived terms

 * Digraph sequences: ae, ah, ai, au, aw, ay, ea, eau, ia, oa, ua

Noun

 * 1) a (the name of the letter A, a)

Noun

 * 1) The letter a
 * 2)  A (note)

Declension
(music):

Etymology
From.

Etymology 2
German musical notation.

Noun

 * 1)  A note

Noun

 * , the name of the Latin-script letter A

Noun

 * 1)  (name of the letter A, a)

Etymology
From, from , from.

Numeral

 * 1) four

Letter

 * 1)  The first letter of the Hungarian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

 * a-moll

Etymology
From.

Letter

 * 1) A letter of the Jersey Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

 * 1) a the first letter of Kayan alphabet.

Etymology 1
From, likely through Etruscan.

Letter

 * 1)  the first letter of the Latin alphabet.

Etymology 2
From.

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 first letter of the Laz alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

 * a =
 * ą =
 * á =
 * ą́ =
 * aa =
 * ąą =
 * áa =
 * ą́ą =
 * aá =
 * ąą́ =
 * áá =
 * ą́ą́ =
 * ą́ą́ =

Etymology
From, from , likely through the  language, from  , from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from  , representing the head of an ox.

Noun

 * 1) the letter, the first letter of the Norwegian alphabet
 * 2) indicates the first or best entry of a list, order or rank
 * 3) the highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale
 * 4)  designation of the sixth note from C and the corresponding tone
 * 5)  symbol for ampere
 * 6)  symbol for nucleon number
 * 7)  symbol for avance
 * 8) symbol for
 * 9) short form of
 * 1) the highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale
 * 2)  designation of the sixth note from C and the corresponding tone
 * 3)  symbol for ampere
 * 4)  symbol for nucleon number
 * 5)  symbol for avance
 * 6) symbol for
 * 7) short form of
 * 1) the highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale
 * 2)  designation of the sixth note from C and the corresponding tone
 * 3)  symbol for ampere
 * 4)  symbol for nucleon number
 * 5)  symbol for avance
 * 6) symbol for
 * 7) short form of
 * 1)  symbol for ampere
 * 2)  symbol for nucleon number
 * 3)  symbol for avance
 * 4) symbol for
 * 5) short form of
 * 1)  symbol for nucleon number
 * 2)  symbol for avance
 * 3) symbol for
 * 4) short form of

Noun

 * 1) the letter a

Noun

 * 1) a (the letter a)

Etymology
From, form of , from , from , from , from.

Related terms

 * with diacritics:, , ,

Letter

 * 1)  It is followed by . Its traditional name is .

Etymology
See Translingual section.

Letter

 * 1) The 1st letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), followed by.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) ; a

Etymology
See Translingual section.

Etymology
From, form of , from , from  , from  , from.

Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , modification of capital , itself derived from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Letter

 * 1)  It is followed by .

Mutation

 * a cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take, for example with the word :

Derived terms

 * Digraph sequences:, , , ,