At 11:49 +0200 2002-05-02, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: >* Lars Marius Garshol >| >| Also, I am very curious if this character is used (or even known) >| outside Norway at all. > >* Michael Everson >| >| It's a Latin abbreviation I imagine. It's found in older Irish texts >| where it represents "con". > >Are you saying that precisely the same character ("9:") can be found >in old Irish manuscripts? Also, what is "con"; is it the Latin word, >or an Irish word? If it's the Latin word that would mean that the >character used in a different sense in Irish, right? And today the >Irish use ".i." as an abbreviation for "i.e.", rather than "9:"?
The reversed C is a Latin manuscript abbreviation. It generally means "con". It is often festooned with other marks, which modify it. Cappelli's dictionary does not show this character with a colon following it, and I can't say how it came to have a meaning "det vil si". I am sure there is a paper trail there somewhere! In Cappelli's dictionary you do find .9. for instance. The Irish never used 9: as an abbreviation to my knowledge. But .i. "eadhon" is commonly used here in preference to i.e. "id est". The character 9 is found in Irish manuscripts with the meaning "con", .i. 9chobhair = Conchobhair. At 09:15 +0200 2002-05-02, Trond Trosterud wrote: > >I use it as well (but obviously only in handwriting). It looks like a >reversed c with a colon following it, thus the mirror image of the >following: > >:c > >(well, the reverse C is more like an open circle, and the : is much closer >to it than shown above). Don't you use this? We don't, Trond, and we're looking for information about it. I'd encode it with the IPA open o and a colon; Lars is wondering why it shouldn't be considered a single entity. Has it a name in Norwegian? >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Trond Trosterud t +47 7764 4763 >Samisk institutt, Det humanistiske fakultet m +47 950 70140 >N-9037 Universitetet i Tromsų, Noreg f +47 7764 4239 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/ >------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com