i have seen this asked long ago in a computer magazine, and it was not resolved. note that it is not dutch, where there exist an i-j ligature: ij, but this is rounded.
2006-08-10 19:17:48 · 10 answers · asked by ixat02 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
definitely not german. ( i know german )
2006-08-10 19:27:07 · update #1
Wikipedia knows (again):
Ÿ is sometimes used in transcribed Greek, where it represents the non-diphthong αυ (alpha upsilon), e.g. in the Persian name Artaÿctes at the very end of Herodotus. It occurs also in French as a variant of ï, in rare proper nouns (for instance, the name of the Parisian suburb of L'Haÿ-les-Roses).
2006-08-12 09:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by Jake23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not modern German but I have seen it used in at least two cases historically of German who immigrated to English language areas. Specifically some of the church records of St. Mary's, London in 1717 show the use of the ÿ. Also the immigration and naturalization papers of Henrÿ John Sutter in Washington Territory in 1890. Henrÿ was born near Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1855. His name was probably Heinrich in Germay but switched to Henrÿ in the United States so that the spelling could be closer to the English "Henry" while being phonetically closer to the German Heinrich. It is similar to the Dutch "ÿ" which is pronounced as "ij".
2013-11-01 18:53:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Celtic, Norse and Germanic languages use that symbol to indicate how the word is to be pronounced.either as an emphasis on that letter or to make it a different sounding letter.
2006-08-10 19:26:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe German...may.
2006-08-10 19:22:01 · answer #4 · answered by a_neilsen2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess was Turkish, because they have several letters with umlaut, but when I looked it up, the Y does not have it.
Sorry!
Maybe you should continue searching in that corner, the languages related to Turkish.
2006-08-10 19:25:08 · answer #5 · answered by Hi y´all ! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Icelandic?
2006-08-10 19:22:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lily 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In mathematics it is the second derivative with respect to time.
2006-08-10 19:24:16 · answer #7 · answered by playing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess would be German.
2006-08-10 19:19:51 · answer #8 · answered by Sponged 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Might be a math symbol...
2006-08-10 19:35:33 · answer #9 · answered by Miss J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
northwestern european! idk which country (ukraine?) but i saw it a week ago! i couldve sworn it was somethin like that
2006-08-10 19:20:28 · answer #10 · answered by maxcreeed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋