sixth letter of the oldest Gr. alphabets, pronounced like Engl. w, IG 9(1).334 (Locr., V B.C.), 4.333, 14.2420, Alcm. 23.6, Sapph. Supp. 1.6, Corinn.ib. 1.29, etc.; it was written in many dialects until ii B.C. (and pronounced even later); in others (incl. Ion. and Att.) it died out (with the sound) before the date of the earliest Inscrr., surviving only as a numeral, = 6, in the form 𐅝, SIG 46.106 (Halic., V B.C.), IG 1(2).760 (Athens, V B.C.), PCair.Zen. 13.4 (iii B.C.), BMus.Cat.Coins, Egypt
The corpus record
Ϝ ϝ
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.