First of all, the name of the letter Η must have been heta (ͱῆτα or hε͂τα) at the time when the letter was still being used to indicate /h/ - after all, it came from the Phoenician letter 𐤇/ḥet, and the first sound represented its value.

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This is a nice little bit of trivia (that grammarians in the time of Dionysius Thrax still associated heta with /h/). But that first bit makes me wonder. Is it a rule that heta before tau is always smooth? If so, are there other rules like this that allow us to predict rough versus smooth breathing? If not, what did the author mean by this?

2017年3月5日 · Ἐγγύα πάρα δ' ἄτη appears to have been a proverb; it is apparently quoted (see fn. 3) in a fragment of Cratinus, an Attic comic playwright (though Cratinus's version seems to have been different, ἑγγύα δ' ἄτας θυγάτηρ "a pledge is the daughter of recklessness"), and also in a fragment of Thales (scroll down to ἄτη II.2) in the Doric form ἐγγύα ...

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Heta (Ͱͱ) was a Heracleian modification of eta used specifically for the consonant sound, distinct from the vowel. Sometimes it looked like a box with a line through the middle, other times like half an H; the latter was eventually adapted into the rough-breathing mark.

2018年4月30日 · The consistency of Greek spelling tends to hide the sound changes that happened within the language. Greek originally(*) had three different "o-like" sounds, written ο, ω, ου.

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2018年3月20日 · Greek is not a single language, but it had various dialects and evolved significantly over time. What form of Greek did the Romans who spoke classical Latin study?