The Old English Ash in Latin

The old english ash was not a continuation of some standardized latin ligarature. The sound i actually does correspond to the pronunciation of the letters a and e. This is because, by the early mediaeval period, the pronunciation of dif thong i shifted to a. In response to this sound shift, scribesue used the a e ligature as a way of preserving the etymological spelling of words containing these letters. However, when english began borrowing an influx of words directly from latin during the renaissance, most significantly during the sixteenth century, it was the a e that made an impact on english orthography. Overtime, many of latin words originally spelled