- name
begins with the
letter itself. For example, Gr****
letter names are
acrophonic: the
names of the
letters α, β, γ, δ, are
spelled with the respective...
- had the
acrophonic value /n/, from the
Egyptian word for "water", nt; the
adoption as the
Semitic letter for /m/ was
presumably also on
acrophonic grounds...
- they were
first described in a 2nd-century m****cript by Herodian; or as
acrophonic numerals (from acrophony)
because the
basic symbols derive from the first...
-
sound of the
Semitic name for the
object depicted by the hieroglyph, the "
acrophonic principle". For example, the
hieroglyph per 'house' was used to write...
-
another system that came into use
perhaps in the 7th century BC. They were
acrophonic,
derived (after the
initial one) from the
first letters of the
names of...
- The
history of
mathematical notation includes the commencement, progress, and
cultural diffusion of
mathematical symbols and the
conflict of the methods...
-
iotacism or itacism. In the
ancient Attic number system (Herodianic or
acrophonic numbers), the
number 100 was
represented by "Η",
because it was the initial...
- Lighter-than-air
aircraft tender (AZ), a US Navy hull
classification symbol Az, the
acrophonic name of the
letter A (Cyrillic) in the old
Russian alphabet Search for...
-
orthographical variant of the
Cyrillic letter O (О о) (here "on" (oнъ, onŭ) is the
acrophonic name of the
Cyrillic О in
early Cyrillic alphabets, e.g., in the old Russian...
-
Ancient Gr****
Numbers is a
Unicode block containing acrophonic numerals used in
ancient Greece,
including ligatures and
special symbols. The following...
