Ny

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Greek letter nu serif + sans.svg
Ny
pronunciation
antique [ n ]
modern [ n ]
Equivalents
Latin N
Cyrillic Н
Hebrew נ
Arabic
Phoenician ?
transcription
From the ancient world n
From the modern n
Coding
Capitals
Unicode number U + 039D
Unicode name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU
HTML & # 925;
HTML entity & Nu;
Minuscule
Unicode number U + 03BD
Unicode name GREEK SMALL LETTER NU
HTML & # 957;
HTML entity & nu;

The Ny [ NY ] ( Greek neuter νῦ ; neugriechisches neuter Νι , today's debate Ni ; Majuskel  Ν, minuscule  ν) is the 13th  letter of the Greek alphabet and has after the Milesian system the numerical value of the 50th

At the end of some ancient Greek words there is an optional ending Ny (-ν), the movable Ny or Ny ephelkystikon (Greek: νῦ ἐφελκυστικόν). It is used at the end of a sentence or to avoid a hiiat .

Examples of the Ny ephelkystikon are:

  • παιδεύουσι (ν) paideuousi (n) (3rd person pl. pres. act. / date pl. part. pres. act.)
  • γένεσι (ν) genesi (n) ( Dat.Plur . v. γένος genos )

use

The lowercase letter ν is used as a symbol

Origin and derivatives

The Ny developed from the Phoenician letter Nun Phoenician nun.svg.

Both the Latin letter  N and the Cyrillic letter  Н are derived from the Greek Ny .

Web links

Wiktionary: Ny  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations