Автор: dist (83.102.161.---)
Дата: 01-11-04 14:28
F (Ef),
the sixth letter of the Roman alphabet, represents historically the 6th letter (waw) of the Semitic alphabet, which expressed the sounds of w (approximately) and the related vowel u. In early Greek writing the letter had at first the same twofold power; but subsequently its accidental varieties of form came to be differentiated in function, the form F (retaining the 6th place in the alphabet) being appropriated to the consonantal use, while V or Y served for the vowel, and is the source of the Roman U, V, Y, as explained under those letters.
As the sound w was lost in the chief literary Greek dialects of the classical period, its sign F (called by the grammarians from its form the digamma) is not included in the later Gr. alphabet. In the Roman adoption of the Gr. alphabet the sound given to the 6th letter was the voiceless labiodental spirant (f). In OE. the letter retained the sound (f) unless it stood between two vowels, when it was pronounced as the corresponding voiced spirant (v). In the S.W., according to some scholars, the voiced sound was used also initially. In mod. Eng. F is always sounded (f), exc. in the word of, where it is voiced to (v) through absence of stress.
In MSS. a capital F was often written as ff. A misunderstanding of this practice has caused the writing of Ff or ff at the beginning of certain family names, e.g. Ffiennes, Ffoulkes.
OED
Авторы справки явно ошибаются в ПОРЯДКОВОМ НОМЕРЕ буквы F в античном алфавите. В изданном массовыми тиражами в конце 15 века Евклиде (естественно, на латыни), расстановка буква шла в таком порядке:
ABCDEIH(G)KLMNOPQRSTU(=V)FYXZ
Буква G шла после H (но иногда пропускалась; рудимент того, что G=C: Венеция еще в 16 веке изображаласть то как Venecia, то как Venegia, то как Fenecia, что неопытные истоки читают иногда как Финикия), дигамма F шла там, где она стоит в русском алфавите и сегодня.
Y шел впереди Х еще у Декарта.
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