Where does “d” come from?
d (Slovene) comes from Serbo-Croatian đ, from Czech d, from Latin d, from Etruscan 𐌃, from Ancient Greek δ, from Phoenician 𐤃, from Egyptian 𓉿.
Ancestry of “d”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | đ | — |
| 2 | Czech | d | It represents the phoneme /ɟ/ |
| 3 | Latin | d | — |
| 4 | Etruscan | 𐌃 | de |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | δ | Lower case delta (δέλτα), the fourth letter of Greek alphabet. It represented in Ancient Greek a voiced dental plosive: and in modern Greek a voiced dental fricative:. It is preceded by γ and followed by ε |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤃 | dalet; daleth |
| 7 | Egyptian | 𓉿 | — |