单词 | long mark |
释义 | > as lemmaslong mark long mark n. a straight horizontal line (ˉ) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is long (see sense A. 11a); cf. length-mark n. at length n. 8b, macron n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of prickOE tittlec1384 acute accent1555 windabout1589 cerilla1591 cedilla1599 acute1609 circumflex1609 grave1609 diaeresis1611 dialysis1665 dot1693 short accent, mark1704 long mark1729 síneadh fada1768 macron1851 macrotone1880 tilde1915 umlaut1938 fada1981 ogonek1981 1729 J. Gibson Grammatical Exceptions 12 The future Tense of Sum,..in the 1st and 2d Person plural, has got a long Mark upon it, thus, erīmus, erītis. 1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. 13 The use..of the long mark (ˉ) for the lengthening of vowels generally short. 1944 E. Kimbrough How Dear to my Heart vii. 124 I was standing at the blackboard writing ‘bo’, with a long mark over the o, and ‘bow’ underneath it. 2002 Z. Cipris & S. Hamano Making Sense of Japanese Gram. p. xiii Long vowels..are marked by doubling the vowel rather than by a long mark. < as lemmas |
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