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 The Gothic alphabet  𐌰 | 𐌱 | 𐌲 | ► | ►►

The letter 𐌰 is the first letter of the Gothic alphabet. Its numeric value is 1 and the letter derrives from the Greek letter A.

It is normally pronounced as a short a /a/, or in some cases as a long a /aː/.

The 𐌰 is often part of a digraph, as in aí or aú. Their pronounciation is not quite proven yet but mostly it is said for aí to be a short /ɛ/, and for aú to be a short and open /ɔ/. They should not be confounded with ái and áu. In the original Gothic script, there is no acute used to distinguish aí/aú from ái/áu; this distinction is just made in the transcription. Those with the acute on the a are used to describe that there are two seperated sounds /a, i/ or /a, u/.

In the [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Vindobonensis_795 Codex Vindobonensis 795] the Gothic letters are derrived with their names. The name of 𐌰 is according to that codex aza which was later reconstructed as Gothic ans for "god" or asks for "ash". The Proto Germanic name is reconstructed as *ansuz.