Ͱ
(Redirected from Ⱶ)
See also: Ꟶ [U+A7F5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED HALF H]
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Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
A variant of the letter Η (Ē) (eta), of which it retains the original sound value of /h/.
Letter edit
Ͱ • (H) (upper case, lower case ͱ)
See also edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius.
Letter edit
Ͱ (lower case ⱶ)
- Used to represent the so called sonus medius, a short vowel sound between U and I before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus and optimus, later used as a variant of y in inscriptions for Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus), possibly inspired by an early form of the spiritus asper.