English
r
/ɑː(ɹ)/
The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
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Origin
Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚱ.
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Sources
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: r