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Ϝ

Ϝ


Ϝ U+03DC, Ϝ
GREEK LETTER DIGAMMA
ϛ
[U+03DB]
Greek and Coptic ϝ
[U+03DD]
See also: ϝ, Appendix:Variations of "f", Appendix:Variations of "u", Appendix:Variations of "v", and Appendix:Variations of "y"

Ancient Greek

Letter

Ϝ (W)

  1. (historical) The letter Ϝαῦ (Waû) (later called δίγαμμα (dígamma)), representing the sound /w/ which was lost by most dialects early on in the literary history of Ancient Greek. It remained in use in archaic dialects, such as Arcadocypriot Greek and as the number 6.

Greek

Letter

Ϝ (Ϝ) (uppercase, lowercase ϝ)

  1. (obsolete) The letter δίγαμμα (dígamma).

ϝ

ϝ


ϝ U+03DD, ϝ
GREEK SMALL LETTER DIGAMMA
Ϝ
[U+03DC]
Greek and Coptic Ϟ
[U+03DE]
See also: Ϝ, Appendix:Variations of "f", Appendix:Variations of "u", Appendix:Variations of "v", and Appendix:Variations of "y"

Ancient Greek

Symbol

ϝ (w)

  1. Lower case digamma, the sixth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. Its name was probably ϝαῦ, later δίγαμμα, and it represented a voiced labial-velar approximant: /w/. It is preceded by ε and followed by ζ.

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Greek

Letter

ϝ (ϝ) (lowercase, uppercase Ϝ)

  1. (obsolete) The letter δίγαμμα (dígamma).