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w

Pronunciation: /ˈdɔbːəltˌʋeː/

“w” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. The lowercase form of W, the twenty-third letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script; preceded by v and followed by x.
  2. The written representation of a consonant sound, normally pronounced like v as /ʋ/ in Norwegian, but sometimes as /w/ in foreign words and names.
  3. A figure, shape, or formation resembling the lowercase letter w.

Etymology

The lowercase form of W. The letter developed in medieval Latin-script writing from a doubled form of the letter represented in modern typography by ⟨u⟩ or ⟨v⟩, which were not yet consistently distinguished as separate letters. The doubled form was used to represent the Germanic sound /w/, for which Classical Latin had no separate letter, and gradually developed into the independent letter ⟨w⟩.…

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