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Acrophony (/əˈkrɒfəni/;
Ancient Gr****: ἄκρος, romanized: akros, lit. 'uppermost' + φωνή
phone 'sound') is the
naming of
letters of an
alphabetic writing...
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systems demonstrate acrophony, a
phenomenon where letters have been
given names distinct from
their pronunciations.
Systems with
acrophony include Gr****, Arabic...
- The
mysterious letters (muqaṭṭaʿāt, Arabic: حُرُوف مُقَطَّعَات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters") are
combinations of between...
- *bayt-), and
appears to
derive from an
Egyptian hieroglyph of a
house by
acrophony. The
Phoenician letter gave rise to,
among others, the Gr**** beta (Β,...
- had
frequent and
varied historical uses.
According to the
principle of
acrophony, the
letter A
originated from the Proto-Sinaitic
alphabet as a symbol...
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Semitic languages. The word
became the name of the letter, as an
example of
acrophony. It
developed into Gr**** ⟨Ρ⟩ ῥῶ (rhô) and
Latin ⟨R⟩. The
descending diagonal...
- a 2nd-century m****cript by Herodian; or as
acrophonic numerals (from
acrophony)
because the
basic symbols derive from the
first letters of the (ancient)...
- Nabataean). Ge'ez is from
South Arabian.
Phoenician used a
system of
acrophony to name letters: a word was
chosen with each
initial consonant sound,...
- 'ten', 'hundred', 'thousand' and 'ten thousand'. See Gr****
numerals and
acrophony.
Roman numerals originated in
ancient Rome,
adapted from
Etruscan numerals...
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represent the
sound of the rune
itself according to the
principle of
acrophony. The Old
English names of all 24
runes of the
Elder ****hark,
along with...
