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The diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrəsɪs, -ˈɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-sis, -EER-; is a diacritical mark used to indicate the separation of two distinct vowels in adjacent syllables when an instance of diaeresis (or hiatus) occurs, so as to distinguish from a digraph or diphthong. It consists of two dots ¨ placed over a letter, generally … See more
The word diaeresis is from Greek diaíresis (διαίρεσις), meaning "division", "separation", or "distinction". The word trema (French: tréma), used in linguistics and also classical scholarship, is from the Greek trē̂ma … See more
In Greek, two dots, called a trema, were used in the Hellenistic period on the letters ι and υ, most often at the beginning of a word, as in ϊδων, ϋιος, and ϋβριν, to separate them from a preceding vowel, as writing was scriptio continua, where spacing was not yet … See more
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