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Acrophony (/əˈkrɒfəni/; Gr****: ἄκρος
akros uppermost + φωνή
phone sound) is the
naming of
letters of an
alphabetic writing system so that a letter's name...
- languages; this is
known as
acrophony, and it is
present in
scripts including Gr****, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac. However,
acrophony is not
present in all languages...
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symbol for 'un-American' ("unamerican").
According to the
principle of
acrophony, the
letter A
originated from the Proto-Sinatic
alphabet as a
symbol representing...
- *bayt-), and
appears to
derive from an
Egyptian hieroglyph of a
house by
acrophony. The
Phoenician letter gave rise to,
among others, the Gr**** beta (Β,...
- The
mysterious letters (muqaṭṭaʿāt, Arabic: حُرُوف مُقَطَّعَات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters") are
combinations of between...
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Semitic languages. The word
became the name of the letter, as an
example of
acrophony. It
developed into Gr**** ⟨Ρ⟩ ῥῶ (rhô) and
Latin ⟨R⟩. The
descending diagonal...
- a 2nd-century m****cript by Herodian; or as
acrophonic numerals (from
acrophony)
because the
basic symbols derive from the
first letters of the (ancient)...
- Gr**** φωνή (phōnḗ), φωνητικός (phōnētikós), φώνημα (phṓnēma) acrophonic,
acrophony, allophone, antiphon, antiphony, aphonia, aphonic, apophony, archiphoneme...
- Nabataean). Ge'ez is from
South Arabian.
Phoenician used a
system of
acrophony to name letters: a word was
chosen with each
initial consonant sound,...
- 'ten', 'hundred', 'thousand' and 'ten thousand'. See Gr****
numerals and
acrophony.
Roman numerals originated in
ancient Rome,
adapted from
Etruscan numerals...
