noun
definition
Letter of the Old Greek alphabet: Ϝ, ϝ
Examples of digamma in a Sentence
But the Phoenician form corresponding to it is the consonant w, and occupies the of position of the Greek digamma as sixth in the series.
But as Dr Evans has found a form like the digamma among his most recent types of symbols, and as we have no intermediate forms which will prove the development of from Y, though the form found at Oaxos in Crete, viz.
For the Greek digamma Etruscan used both 3 and q, but the former only was borrowed by the other languages.
As the old digamma was kept, this new sign was placed after those borrowed from the Chalcidian - alphabet.
So too the digamma is called " Aeolic " by grammarians, and is found on Aeolic and Doric inscriptions.
Certain prominent historical differences between Aeolic and Ionic (the digamma and a) are known to be unoriginal.