The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 hours agoThe curse of Thothlemmy.worldimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1305
arrow-up1305imageThe curse of Thothlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squarediverging@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·11 hours agoΘώθ has both upper case and lower case Greek characters, and a diacritic above the ω. Throughout antiquity, Greek had only a single uppercase form of each letter. It was written without diacritics and with little punctuation. I suppose it would have been written ΘΩΘ.
minus-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoAbout the upper case thing - was that something that was preserved until vulgar Latin? Seeing as everything is majuscule in like inscriptions and whatnot
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoAlso, single syllable words don’t (typically) use diacritics in modern Greek either
Θώθ has both upper case and lower case Greek characters, and a diacritic above the ω.
I suppose it would have been written ΘΩΘ.
About the upper case thing - was that something that was preserved until vulgar Latin? Seeing as everything is majuscule in like inscriptions and whatnot
Also, single syllable words don’t (typically) use diacritics in modern Greek either