Mertcan Bulak: Choosing a handful of Phoenician letters whose consonantal sounds were unneeded for Greek, the Greeks reassigned these to be vowels. One letter affected was he, which now became the Greek E vowel. At first, the Greek letter stood for both long and short E. Later the letter would be specialized as short E only, and another Greek letter, named eta, would be developed for long E. Eventually, the old short-E letter would receive the Greek name e psilon (or epsilon ), “naked E.”

Choosing a handful of Phoenician letters whose consonantal sounds were unneeded for Greek, the Greeks reassigned these to be vowels. One letter affected was he, which now became the Greek E vowel. At first, the Greek letter stood for both long and short E. Later the letter would be specialized as short E only, and another Greek letter, named eta, would be developed for long E. Eventually, the old short-E letter would receive the Greek name e psilon (or epsilon ), “naked E.”

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