The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma w consonant.
The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma
Now in Greek this v would necessarily disappear, though its former presence might be indicated by the digamma æolicum.
In Thera the w sound of digamma (f) was entirely lost, and therefore is not represented.
As the old digamma was kept, this new sign was placed after those borrowed from the Chalcidian alphabet.
English w), the sign for the digamma F was left unemployed, and as FH was a cumbrous method of representing a sound which did not exist in Greek, the second element came to be left out in writing.
But as Dr Evans has found a form like the digamma among his most recent types of symbols, and as we have no intermediate forms which will prove the development of . from . , though the form found at Oaxos in Crete, viz.
For the Greek digamma Etruscan used both . and ., but the former only was borrowed by the other languages.
But the Phoenician form corresponding to it is the consonant w, and occupies the position of the Greek digamma as sixth in the series.
Certain prominent historical differences between Aeolic and Ionic (the digamma and alpha) are known to be unoriginal.
So too the digamma is called "Aeolic" by grammarians, and is found on Aeolic and Doric inscriptions.
Which of these various sounds should be given the digamma appears to have been determined by the law of euphony.
The question then is, which of these various sounds of the digamma is represented by the Latin U consonant, or does it represent all, or none, of these.
Doubtless it ran an honorable course and passed on from class to class the tradition of its high ambition, but never again was the lost digamma so nearly in its grasp.
On a rumor arising from the chairman that the presence of the lost digamma was suspected the group rushed together of an evening, for there was an instinct that the digamma, like the raccoon, was easiest trapped at night.
There was, of course, a choice of places where the Lost Digamma might have pushed its search.
Although the digamma escapes our salt, somewhere he lurks on the lonely mountains.
Among these musty memorial shelves, if anywhere, it would seem that the dusty padding feet of the lost digamma might be heard.
Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.
The digamma is only found on coins of Elis and Crete, whereas it often occurs on early Greek vases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digamma" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
