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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CD%B6Etymology 1
A glyph development from the Phoenician letter ?? (w, “waw”) in several epichoric alphabets, wherein ?, ? (V, v) denoted the archaic phoneme /w/, which was elsewhere denoted by ?, ? (W, w, “digamma”). In the Pamphylian Greek dialect, /w/ gained the allophone [v]; consequently, ?, ? (W, w) was adopted to mark the distinction (albeit inconsistently), with ?, ? (V, v) denoting the original [w] and ?, ? (W, w) denoting the novel phone [v].
Pronunciation (Pamphylian, hypothesised) IPA(key): [w]
? • (V) (upper case, lower case ?)
(Pamphylian Greek) digamma, denoting a voiced labio-velar approximant, and sorted between epsilon and zeta
Etymology 2
An alteration of ?, ? (?, ?, “san”); it occurred in the Arcadocypriot Greek dialect of Mantinea in Arcadia, wherein it is believed that it denoted a reflex of the Proto-Greek phoneme */k?/, intermediate between it and the later Arcadocypriot /s?/.
Pronunciation (Arcadocypriot, hypothesised) IPA(key): /t?s?/
? • (?) (upper case, lower case ?) (Arcadocypriot) tsan, denoting an alveolar ejective affricate; its sorting order is not known
Synonyms (Arcadocypriot tsan): ?? (S?)
Etymology 3
Applied due to the resemblance of the Melian glyph to the Unicode reference glyph shared by the Pamphylian digamma and Arcadocypriot tsan.
? • (B) (upper case, lower case ?) (nonstandard) an allograph of ? occurring in inscriptions from the isle of Melos
