Ͷ

See also: ͷ, и, 𐑍, 𐐥, and И

Ͷ U+0376, Ͷ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA ← ͵ [U+0375] Greek and Coptic ͷ → [U+0377]

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

A glyph development from the Phoenician letter 𐤅 (w, “waw”) in several epichoric alphabets, wherein Ͷ denoted the archaic phoneme /w/, which was elsewhere denoted by Ϝ (W, “digamma”). In the Pamphylian Greek dialect, /w/ gained the allophone [v]; consequently, Ϝ (W) was adopted to mark the distinction (albeit inconsistently), with Ͷ denoting the original [w] and Ϝ (W) denoting the novel phone [v].

Pronunciation

• (hypothesised) IPA^(key): [w]

Letter

Ͷ • (W) (upper case, lower case ͷ)

1. (Pamphylian) digamma, denoting a voiced labio-velar approximant, and sorted between epsilon and zeta

Etymology 2

An alteration of Ϻ (S, “san”); it occurred in the Arcadocypriot Greek dialect of Mantinea in Arcadia, wherein it is believed that it denoted a reflex of the Proto-Greek phoneme */kʷ/, intermediate between it and the later Arcadocypriot /sː/.

Pronunciation

• (hypothesised) IPA^(key): /t͡s/

Letter

Ͷ • (Ts) (upper case, lower case ͷ)

1. (Arcadocypriot) tsan, denoting an voiceless alveolar affricate; its sorting order is not known

Etymology 3

Applied due to the resemblance of the Melian glyph to the Unicode reference glyph shared by the Pamphylian digamma and Arcadocypriot tsan.

Letter

Ͷ • (B) (upper case, lower case ͷ)

1. (nonstandard) an allograph of Β occurring in inscriptions from the isle of Melos