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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet (Pl.)<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Sem.<br />Etymology: From Semitic, cf. Hebr. [[zajit]], Aram. [[zētā]] (Lewy Fremdw. 169f.; s. Schwyzer 140 n. 4). The idea that <b class="b3">ζῆτα</b> continues Hebr. [[zajin]] reshaped after <b class="b3">βῆτα</b>, <b class="b3">ἦτα</b>, <b class="b3">θῆτα</b>, is unnecessary. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet (Pl.)<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Sem.<br />Etymology: From Semitic, cf. Hebr. [[zajit]], Aram. [[zētā]] (Lewy Fremdw. 169f.; s. Schwyzer 140 n. 4). The idea that <b class="b3">ζῆτα</b> continues Hebr. [[zajin]] reshaped after <b class="b3">βῆτα</b>, <b class="b3">ἦτα</b>, <b class="b3">θῆτα</b>, is unnecessary. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=<br />Ζ, ζ, [[ζῆτα]], τό, indecl., [[sixth]] [[letter]] of Gk. Alphabet: as [[numeral]] ζ# = [[ἑπτά]] and [[ἕβδομος]] (the obsol. \σ\#, i. e. ϝ, vau, the digamma, [[being]] retained to [[represent]] ἕξ, ἕκτοσ), but #22ζ = 7000. Ζ ζ is [[composed]] of ς and δ, so that in aeolic it becomes σδ, as Σδεύς [[κωμάσδω]] [[ψιθυρίσδω]] for [[Ζεύς]] [[κωμάζω]] [[ψιθυρίζω]] [[reversely]], in [[attic]], σδ becomes ζ, [[Ἀθήναζε]] [[θύραζε]] for Ἀθήνασδε θύρασδε. But ς often disappears in aeolic, [[where]] ζά = δια, see ζά, ζα-so in aeolic and doric, as we [[have]] [[Δεύς]] Δάν for [[Ζεύς]] Ζάν, [[δορκάς]] = [[ζορκάς]]:—so also [[ἀρίζηλος]] for [[ἀρίδηλος]]; [[ἀλαπαδνός]] from [[ἀλαπάζω]], [[παιδνός]] from [[παίζω]]:—doric, in the [[middle]] of words, it becomes δδ, as [[θερίδδω]] for -ίζω, [[μάδδα]] for [[μᾶζα]]. Zeta, [[being]] a [[double]] conson., made a [[short]] vowel at the end of the foregoing [[syllable]] [[long]] by [[position]]. But [[Homer]] used the vowel [[short]] [[before]] two [[prop]]. names, [[which]] could not [[otherwise]] [[come]] [[into]] the Hexam., viz. ἄστῠ Ζελείης, ὑλήεσσᾰ Ζάκυνθος. | |||
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