Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth...

Look up waw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Waw or WAW may refer to: Waw (letter), a letter in many Semitic abjads Waw, the velomobile Another spelling...

(pronounced /ˈɛf/), and the plural is efs. The origin of 'F' is the Semitic letter waw that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically it originally probably...

masculine form respectively. The oldest direct ancestor of the letter Y was the Semitic letter waw (pronounced as [w]), from which also come F, U, V, and W...

letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, Υʹ has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw . The name of the letter was...

vowel [u]. In Greek, two letters were adapted from the Phoenician waw. The letter was adapted, but split in two, with Digamma or wau ⟨Ϝ⟩ being adapted...

Semitic letter Waw, from which the following symbols originally derive U : Latin letter U V : Latin letter V Ⱳ ⱳ : W with hook Ꝡ ꝡ : Latin letter VY Ꟃ ꟃ :...

in the middle position unless in waw if that letter is preceded by a non-joiner letter; then, it is seated above waw. Hamza is also seated when written...

zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also derived from waw but was placed near the end of the Greek alphabet...

was turned into [o] (Ο, omicron); and the letter for /h/ (he) was turned into [e] (Ε, epsilon). A doublet of waw was also borrowed as a consonant for [w]...