Re: Old Norse orthography

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Sep 10 2005 - 11:32:45 CDT

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At 13:25 +0100 2005-09-10, Andrew West wrote:

> > The Rune Thorn doesn't derive from the Latin D.
>
>Not directly from Latin D, but thorn probably derives from a North
>Italic letter corresponding to Latin D; so I would say that thorn is
>cognate with Latin D.

From what letter? The only Venetic letter that looks anything like it
is used for /r/, and they have a letter for /d/ that looks like an X
with one or two cross bars. I don't think Thorn is cognate with D.

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