Ἰῶτα
iota
Translated by Catharine Roth22 Jan 2002Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
The simple sound, the letter.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἰῶτα· τὸ στοιχεῖον, τὸ γράμμα.
Betacode
*)iw=ta: to\ stoixei=on, to\ gra/mma.
Notes
- On stoikheion, see eta 614.
The Semitic letter yod (Hebrew י) represented a semivowel like English y, but this sound had been lost in Greek before the separation of the dialects, so the letter was available for use as a vowel in the Greek alphabets. See LSJ entry at web address 1.