aitch

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from. (Compare 🇨🇬.) The source is unclear, but may descend from the vowelless alphabetic sequence  'H, K' (becoming [aka] when the [h] ceased to be pronounced), as K had low frequency in Late Latin. .

Noun

 * The word hour is written with a silent aitch.
 * Cockneys drop their aitches.
 * The word hour is written with a silent aitch.
 * Cockneys drop their aitches.
 * The word hour is written with a silent aitch.
 * Cockneys drop their aitches.

Usage notes

 * Often used in reference of H-dropping.

Descendants

 * → Japanese:, dated
 * → Japanese:, dated
 * → Japanese:, dated

Translations

 * Arabic: إِتْش, هَا
 * Bengali: এইচ
 * Bulgarian: хаш, ейч
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: há
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: Ha
 * Greek: έιτς
 * Hawaiian: hē
 * Hindi: एच
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: há
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: héis, uath
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 에이치
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: hā
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay: hec
 * Manx: hibbin
 * Marathi: एच
 * Middle English: ache, uhe
 * Occitan: acha
 * Old English: hah, hake
 * Persian: هاش,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: haș
 * Russian: эйч, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: eyts, ha, atse
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ейч, аш,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: aetsh

Etymology
Orthographically from, but phonetically a regular reflex of , from , from , probably an extension of earlier , from an unindentified source.