j

Letter

 * 1) The tenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

 * 1)  a palatal approximant a.k.a.  yod.
 * 2)  palatalization (-coloring) of a consonant; or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.
 * 3)  one.
 * ℥j
 * one ounce

Usage notes

 * In Spanish language loanwords and names, "j" is pronounced as an "h", for example in fajita and Julio.
 * The name of this letter is spelled jay, plural jays
 * In Scotland, this letter is sometimes spelled jy, to reflect the local pronunciation.

Derived terms

 * j-word

Noun

 * 1)  A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').
 * "I went outside to smoke myself a J" &mdash; Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening" from the album, "One Trick Pony."
 * 1)  An alternative version of i, the positive square root of -1; used in the context of electronics.
 * 2)  The second unit vector, after i

Etymology 2
Abbreviation.

Suffix

 * 1)  a suffix or final syllable /ʃən/ (,, etc.)

Letter

 * 1) The tenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Interjection

 * 1) O! vocative interjection

Verb

 * 1)  to say

Usage notes
By historical times, this verb is used almost exclusively as part of the quotative in its various forms.

Noun

 * 1)  statement, report, word (about someone’s good qualities)

Usage notes
The above quotes constitute all the known attestations of this word.

Letter

 * 1) the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, called  in Italian

Usage notes

 * The letter is not considered part of the contemporary Italian alphabet. See under.

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) Antepenultimate letter of the Norwegian alphabet, coming after i and before k.

Pronunciation

 * Letter name


 * Phoneme

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

Usage notes

 * This letter is mostly used only in slang, proper nouns, or unadapted loanwords.
 * Some purists of Tagalog replace j in words with dy.

Usage notes

 * Some Spanish words originally with Spanish j tend to be replaced with h in Tagalog.

Pronunciation

 * (nj is pronounced )