Thorn with stroke

{{Short description|Letter of the Latin alphabet}}

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File:Latin thorn with stroke.png

Ꝥ (minuscule: ꝥ), or Þ (thorn) with stroke was a scribal abbreviation common in the Middle Ages. It was used for {{langx|ang|þæt}} (Modern English "that"), as well as {{langx|non|þor-}}, the {{lang|non|-þan}}/{{lang|non|-ðan}} in {{lang|non|síðan}},AM 655, p1 recto, lines 4, 14, & 17 [http://gandalf.uib.no:8008/corpus/document.xml?corpus=menota&document=AM655-XXX-1-0&position=0:0+0+0&mode=facs&homepage=/corpus/menota.xml] {{lang|non|þat}}, {{lang|non|þæt}}, and {{lang|non|þess}}. In Old English texts, the stroke tended to be more slanted, while in Old Norse texts it was straight. In Middle English times, the ascender of the þ was reduced (making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn, ƿ), which caused the thorn with stroke abbreviation ( OE thaet.png ) to be replaced with a thorn with a small t above the letter ( Middle English that.svg ).

Unicode encodes Ꝥ as {{unichar|A764|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE|html=}}, and ꝥ at {{unichar|A765|LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE|html=}}.

A thorn with a stroke on the descender also exists, used historically as an abbreviation for the word "through".{{cite web |title=London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A ix, The Owl and the Nightingale, language 2 |url=http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/laeme2/tagged_data/cotowlbt.html |website=www.lel.ed.ac.uk |access-date=15 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616210249/http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/laeme2/tagged_data/cotowlbt.html |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |language=en |url-status=live}} The codepoints are {{unichar|A766|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE THROUGH DESCENDER|html=}}, and {{unichar|A767|LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE THROUGH DESCENDER|html=}}.