ogonek
Noun
Meaning
ogonek (plural ogoneks)
(orthography) A hook-shaped diacritical mark ⟨◌⟩ attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
Hypernym: diacritical hook
Examples
Cedilla and comma The ogonek is functionally equivalent to the cedilla and comma diacritics.
If two of these three are used within the same orthography their respective use is restricted to certain classes of letters, i.e. usually the ogonek is used with vowels whereas the cedilla is applied to consonants.
In general, a diacritic is a glyph, even if (like a cedilla in French, the ogonek in several languages or the stroke on a Polish " Ł ") it is contiguous with the rest of the character.
Both Adams and Ogonek reflect positively on the ways in which their tenure extended MusicNOW’s creativity beyond programming—or, in Adams’s words, reframed it as less a concert series than an “ideology.”