• Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic wāw و‎, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו‎, Phoenician wāw 𐤅, and Syriac waw...
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  • Look up waw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Waw or WAW may refer to: Waw (letter), a letter in many Semitic abjads Waw, the velomobile Another spelling...
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    Upsilon (redirect from Upsilon (letter))
    letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, Υʹ has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw . The name of the letter was...
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    F (redirect from F (letter))
    (pronounced /ˈɛf/), and the plural is efs. The origin of 'F' is the Semitic letter waw that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically it probably originally...
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    Y (redirect from Samian letter)
    masculine form respectively. The oldest direct ancestor of the letter Y was the Semitic letter waw (pronounced as [w]), from which also come F, U, V, and W...
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    was turned into [o] (Ο, omicron); and the letter for /h/ (he) was turned into [e] (Ε, epsilon). A doublet of waw was also borrowed as a consonant for [w]...
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    U (redirect from Letter U)
    vowel [u]. In Greek, two letters were adapted from the Phoenician waw. The letter was adapted, but split in two, with Digamma or wau ⟨Ϝ⟩ being adapted...
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    Hamza (redirect from Waw hamza)
    in the middle position unless in waw if that letter is preceded by a non-joiner letter; then, it is seated above waw. Hamza is also seated when written...
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    zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also derived from waw but was placed near the end of the Greek alphabet...
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    V (redirect from V (letter))
    ve pequeña, ve chica or ve labiodental. The letter ⟨v⟩ ultimately comes from the Phoenician letter waw by way of ⟨u⟩. During the Late Middle Ages, two...
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