aích
An aích is a term that appears in several contexts without a universally recognized definition. In linguistics and phonology, aích is often used as a placeholder or example word to illustrate orthographic and phonotactic ideas, such as how vowel sequences interact with consonant clusters and diacritics. The form resembles a simple stem built from the vowel a, a marked i, and the consonant ch, whose interpretation depends on the theoretical framework or language under discussion.
Orthography and variants: The sequence is sometimes written as aich or aích, with diacritic marks indicating
Contexts and usage: In scholarly work, aích generally functions as a nonce item rather than a lexical
See also: Linguistic example words; Constructed languages; Orthography.