Where does โ๐โ come from?
๐ (Etruscan) comes from Ancient Greek ฮต, from Phoenician ๐ค, from Egyptian ๐ .
Ancestry of โ๐โ, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | ฮต | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was ฮตแผถ, later แผ ฯฮนฮปฯฮฝ, and presently ฮญฯฮนฮปฮฟฮฝ. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by ฮด and foll |
| 2 | Phoenician | ๐ค | that |
| 3 | Egyptian | ๐ | โ |