The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 18 days agoThe curse of Thothlemmy.worldimagemessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1464arrow-down16
arrow-up1458arrow-down1imageThe curse of Thothlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square26linkfedilink
minus-squarediverging@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·18 days 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-up5·18 days agoAlso, single syllable words don’t (typically) use diacritics in modern Greek either
minus-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 days 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