thumb|100px|Form of the Gothic letter|class=skin-invert-image thumb|right|Some words with Hwair, in Joseph Wright (linguist)|Joseph Wright's [[Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910)|class=skin-invert-image]] Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English by the inverted wh-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) used to transcribe Gothic.
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- Name
- Sound
- Transliteration
- Related letters and other similar characters
- Character encodings
- See also
- References
thumb|100px|Form of the Gothic letter|class=skin-invert-image thumb|right|Some words with Hwair, in Joseph Wright (linguist)|Joseph Wright's [[Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910)|class=skin-invert-image]] Hwair (also , , ) is the name of , the Gothic letter expressing the or sound (reflected in English by the inverted wh-spelling for ). Hwair is also the name of the Latin ligature (capital ) used to transcribe Gothic.
==Name== The name of the Gothic letter is recorded by Alcuin in Codex Vindobonensis 795 as uuaer. The meaning of the name was probably "cauldron, pot" (cf. ' "skull"); comparative reconstruction shows ("a kind of dish or pot") in Proto-Indo-European.