The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 16 hours agoThe curse of Thothlemmy.worldimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1394arrow-down15
arrow-up1389arrow-down1imageThe curse of Thothlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squarediverging@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·15 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-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 hours agoAlso, single syllable words don’t (typically) use diacritics in modern Greek either
minus-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 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
Θώθ has both upper case and lower case Greek characters, and a diacritic above the ω.
I suppose it would have been written ΘΩΘ.
Also, single syllable words don’t (typically) use diacritics in modern Greek either
About the upper case thing - was that something that was preserved until vulgar Latin? Seeing as everything is majuscule in like inscriptions and whatnot