Etymograph

English

haitch

Haitch comes from Middle English aitch.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500aitch
  2. Englishtodayhaitch

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500aitch
  2. Englishtodayhaitch

The story

A nineteenth-century Hiberno-English phonological overlay of the early medieval Irish Gaelic héis and Middle English aitch. Héis is a graphemic mapping of Classical Latin ha, borrowed into Irish Gaelic to represent the autochthonous phoneme. Middle English aitch derives from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, from Classical Latin ha.

Every English word from Middle English aitch

Today it means

noun —

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Etymograph / Middle English aitch / haitch

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