yogh
Noun
Meaning
yogh (plural yoghs)
A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds.
Examples
After the development of printing In Middle Scots orthography the use of yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts.
It was derived from the Old English form of the letter g. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh.
In Middle Scots the character yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts. citation.
List of Middle English words containing a yogh These are examples of Middle English words which contain the letter yogh in their spellings.
The process of replacing the yogh with gh was slow, and was not completed until the end of the fifteenth century.