Gort (letter)

Gort (letter)

Gort is the Irish name of the twelfth letter of the Ogham alphabet, Unicode|ᚌ, meaning "field", which is related to Welsh "garth" 'garden' and Latin "hortus". Its Proto-Indo-European root was *"Unicode|gher-, *ghort-" 'to enclose, enclosure'. Its phonetic value is [g] .


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