Letter U

English Lessons

Semitic Origin

Comes from semitic wāw y

Phoenician	Hebrew	Aramaic	Syriac	Arabic
	ו‎		ܘ‎	و‎

Greek Upsilon from Semitic: ϒ

Cyrillic letter U from Greek: У у

Latin Letter V from Greek: V

Two forms of V developed: ancestor of V and U

U used at middle or end

V used at start

ie:

'have' and 'upon' were printed 'haue' and 'vpon'

First distinction between U and V in a

Gothic alphabet from 1386

by 16th century V used as consonant

and U as vowel sound

short pronunciation: duck, put, cut

long pronunciation: mule, blue

In the interwebs, u means you :>

U is the chemical symbol for Uranium

Venn diagram symbol for union

Graphic approximantion for μ which means micro

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