FromMiddle Englishache, borrowed fromOld Frenchache, fromVulgar Latin*acca. The source is unclear, but may descend from the vowelless alphabetic sequencehaka 'H, K' (becoming [aka] when the [h] ceased to be pronounced), as K had low frequency in Late Latin.[1]Doublet ofecchi.
aitch (pluralaitches)
- The name of theLatin-script letterH/h.
The wordhour is written with a silentaitch.
1773 October,The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee teeaitch.
1898,H.G. Wells,The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page257:"If you've got any drawing-room manners, or a dislike to eating peas with a knife or droppingaitches, you'd better chuck 'em away. They ain't no further use."
1959,Anthony Burgess,Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page469:She frowned, hearing Lim Cheng Po's voice, so English, so refined, so very English upper-class. And often she had had to tell Joe about hisaitches.
name of the letter H, h
- Arabic:إِتْش m(ʔeytš),هَا f(hā)
- Asturian:hache (ast)
- Bengali:এইচ(eic)
- Bulgarian:хаш m(haš)
- Catalan:hac (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:H (zh)(éichi)
- Czech:há (cs) n
- Dutch:haa (nl) m orf
- Esperanto:ho (eo)
- Faroese:há n
- Finnish:hoo (fi)
- French:âche (fr) m orf,ache (fr) m orf
- Galician:hache (gl) m
- German:Ha n
- Greek:έιτς n(éits)
- Hawaiian:hē
- Hindi:एच(ec)
- Hungarian:há (hu)
- Icelandic:há
- Ido:he (io)
- Indonesian:ha (id)
- Irish:héis
- Italian:acca (it)
- Japanese:エイチ (ja)(eichi)
- Korean:에이치(eichi)
- Latin:hā (la)
- Latvian:hā
- Lithuanian:ha (lt)
- Malay:hec
- Manx:hibbin
- Marathi:एच(ec)
- Middle English:ache,uhe
- Occitan:acha f
- Old English:hah,hake
- Persian:هاش(hâš),ایچ (fa)(eyč)(English)
- Polish:h (pl) n,samo h (pl) n(when contrasted with "ch")
- Portuguese:agá (pt) m
- Romanian:haș
- Russian:эйч n(ejč)(English),аш (ru) c(aš),ха (ru) n(xa)
- Spanish:hache (es) f
- Swedish:hå (sv) n
- Tagalog:eyts,ha(Abakada),atse(Abecedario alphabet)
- Thai:เอช (th)(éech),เฮช (th)(héech)
- Turkish:he (tr)
- Ukrainian:ейч n(ejč)(English),аш c(aš),га (uk) n(ha)
- Vietnamese:hắt (vi),hờ (vi)
- Welsh:aetsh f
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- (Latin-script letter names)letter;a,bee,cee,dee,e,ef,gee,aitch,i,jay,kay,el,em,en,o,pee,cue,ar,ess,tee,u,vee,double-u,ex,wye,zee /zed
- ^Liberman, Anatoly (7 August 2013), “Alphabet soup, part 2: H and Y”, inOxford Etymologist[1], Oxford University Press, retrieved3 October 2013
Orthographically fromEnglishaitch, but phonetically a regular reflex ofMiddle Englishache, fromOld Frenchache, fromVulgar Latin*acca, probably an extension of earlierha, from an unindentified source.
aitch (pluralaitches)
- The name of theLatin-script letterH/h.
