Yogh is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Yogh meaning
A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds.
Using Yogh
- The main meaning on this page is: A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds.
- In the example corpus, yogh often appears in combinations such as: yogh was, yogh became, when yogh.
Context around Yogh
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yogh
- In this selection, "yogh" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, character, letter, replaced, became, citation and used stand out and add context to how "yogh" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include z when yogh was not and containing a yogh these are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yogh" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yogh
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The process of replacing the yogh with gh was slow, and was not completed until the end of the fifteenth century. (21 words)
Yogh is shaped similarly to the Arabic numeral three (3), which is sometimes substituted for the character in online reference works. (21 words)
List of Middle English words containing a yogh These are examples of Middle English words which contain the letter yogh in their spellings. (23 words)
History Yogh used for /x/ : God spede þe plouȝ: & sende us kǫrne inolk. main Old English further The original Germanic g sound was expressed by the gyfu rune in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc (which is itself rendered as ȝ main in modern transliteration ). (43 words)
After the development of printing In Middle Scots orthography the use of yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts. (35 words)
Yogh was also used to represent /j/ in words such as ȝe main, ȝhistirday main (yesterday) and ȝoung main but by the Modern Scots period y had replaced yogh. citation. (30 words)
Example sentences (8)
After the development of printing In Middle Scots orthography the use of yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts.
In Middle Scots the character yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts. citation.
List of Middle English words containing a yogh These are examples of Middle English words which contain the letter yogh in their spellings.
Yogh was also used to represent /j/ in words such as ȝe main, ȝhistirday main (yesterday) and ȝoung main but by the Modern Scots period y had replaced yogh. citation.
History Yogh used for /x/ : God spede þe plouȝ: & sende us kǫrne inolk. main Old English further The original Germanic g sound was expressed by the gyfu rune in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc (which is itself rendered as ȝ main in modern transliteration ).
It was derived from the Old English form of the letter g. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.
The process of replacing the yogh with gh was slow, and was not completed until the end of the fifteenth century.
Yogh is shaped similarly to the Arabic numeral three (3), which is sometimes substituted for the character in online reference works.
Common combinations with yogh
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: