ⱶ
See also: ͱ [U+0371 GREEK SMALL LETTER HETA]
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius.
Symbol
[edit]ⱶ (upper case Ⱶ)
- Used to represent the so called sonus medius, a short vowel sound between U and I before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus and optimus, later used as a variant of y in inscriptions for Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus), possibly inspired by an early form of the spiritus asper.