ALL meanings of yogh
yogh
Y y - noun yogh A Middle English letter (ʒ) used mainly where modern English has gh or y. 1
- noun yogh the letter used in the writing of Middle English to represent a palatal fricative, as in ung (Modern English young) or a velar fricative, as in litliche (Modern English lightly). 1
- noun yogh a character (ȝ) used in Old and Middle English to represent a palatal fricative very close to the semivowel sound of Modern English y, as in Old English ȝeong (young) 0
- noun yogh this same character as used in Middle English for both the voiced and voiceless palatal fricatives; when final or in a closed syllable in medial position the sound approached that of German ch in ich, as in knyȝt (knight). After the 14th century this symbol became the modern consonantal (semivocalic) y when initial or commencing a syllable, and though no longer pronounced in medial position it is preserved in many words by a modern gh, as in thought 0
- noun yogh a letter of the Middle English alphabet, ȝ, representing: 0
- noun yogh a voiceless velar fricative similar to Modern German ( (x) ; kh) ), as in doch: in Modern English orthography it has been replaced by gh, which either is silent, as in though, or represents the sound (f), as in cough 0
- noun yogh a voiced palatal fricative: in Modern English orthography, y, representing ( (j) ; y) ) as in yes 0