diacritical hook

English

Noun

diacritical hook (plural diacritical hooks)

1. Any specific, hamiform diacritic; variously:
   1. An ogonek (˛).
      • 1898, Modern Language Notes, XIII, page 50:

        The following misprints have been noticed: … lāru for lārum … and in hęre for as in hęre … miere for mīere … feorōe for feorðe … onliehtan for onlīehtan … the omission of the diacritical hook under the e or o in: dęhter … āsęcgan … cwęllan … swęre, swęriað … sęnde, sęnd … nęmde, nęmnode …gesęnded … sęcge … gǫngan … ęlne … forswęrian … wębbestre, wędlāc.

   2. A retroflex hook (̢).
      • 1958, Robert W. Albright, The International Phonetic Alphabet: Its Backgrounds and Development, page 61:

        Such [r-coloring] may also be represented by adding a diacritical hook to a vowel letter [ᶒ, ɚ, ᶗ], or by making use of Kenyon’s “hooked schwa” [˞].

   3. A cedilla (¸).
      • 1981, Gyula Wojtilla, editor, Writings of Hungarian Islamologist Gyula Germanus, page 157:

        In the new Turkish alphabet each sound is represented by a single letter, sometimes with diacritical hooks.

   4. other similar diacritics
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:diacritical hook.