The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. In Semitic, the letter represented /h/ (and /e/ in foreign words) in Greek, hê became the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hê, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure ( hillul 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. ![]() ![]() 4.3 Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations.4.2 Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets.4.1 Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet.
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