The resound spelling of the coincidable diphthong [ie] in Lithuanian headlines and Ƶodrodyje toie kningelieie essontiu żodiù of Epitome Historiae Sacrae published by Simonas Daukantas in 1838

Abstract

The usage of the special digraph type appears more various and frequent in Prasma (printed in 1837) than in Ƶodrodis (published a year later). This kind of digraph almost vanished from Daukantas’ dictionaries after 1838. Ƶodrodis is considerable to appear as a transitive work in which the type of characters such as and are used. Daukantas probably was translating Lithuanian headlines of the Publication Epitome Historiae Sacrae somewhat later, just at the same time when northern Samogitians decided to mark [ẹi] mainly by the symbol of the type.