ash

Definition: The name of the Old English symbol æ or Æ.
Note: Originally, ash was the name of an Old English runic letter that corresponded to the alphabetic æ.
Etymology: The name derives from the Old English æsc.
OED: Its first OED citation is from circa 1000: "Æsc biþ oferheah, eldum dyre."
(Runic Poem (1915) 22)


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