K with diagonal stroke
K with diagonal stroke (Ꝃ, ꝃ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from K with the addition of a diagonal bar through the leg.
Usage
[edit | edit source]This letter is used in medieval texts as an abbreviation for kalendas, calends, as well as for karta and kartam, a document or writ.[1][2] The same function could also be performed by "K with stroke" (Ꝁ, ꝁ), or "K with stroke and diagonal stroke" (Ꝅ, ꝅ).[1]
In the Breton language, this letter is used, mainly from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, to abbreviate Ker, a prefix used in place names, similar to the Welsh caer.[3]
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Tomb of Louis-Marie-Gabriel Le Coat de Kerveguen
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Kersan river
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Menhir of Kerluhir
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Ker Hermine
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Computer encodings
[edit | edit source]Capital and small K with diagonal stroke is encoded in Unicode as of version 5.1, at codepoints U+A742 and U+A743.[4][5]
It may be transliterated as ⟨K'⟩ or ⟨K/⟩ as in the name of Emeline K/Bidi (French pronunciation: [kɛʁbidi]), a French Réunion politician with a Breton surname.[6]
References
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- ^ Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, p. 195.
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Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Adriano Cappelli, Lexicon Abbreviaturarum, J. J. Weber, Leipzig (1928).
