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Z

Pronunciation: /setː/

“Z” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. The uppercase form of z, the twenty-sixth letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script and placed between Y and Æ.
  2. the consonant sound represented by this letter, normally /s/ and more rarely /ts/

Etymology

Derived from Latin Z, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζ (Z), from Phoenician 𐤆 (zayin, “weapon”), with the early alphabetic form transmitted through Etruscan. The letter occurred in the archaic Latin alphabet, where it originally occupied the position after ⟨F⟩. After the sound represented by the letter disappeared from native Latin, ⟨Z⟩ fell out of ordinary use. It was reintroduced under Augustus…

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