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What is a digamma?

What is a digamma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Letter of the Old Greek alphabet: Ϝ, ϝ
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Which of these various sounds should be given the digamma appears to have been determined by the law of euphony.
But he could not do that, so he read the proof-sheets of his new treatise on the digamma.
But we are expressly told that it had the force and sound of the Greek digamma.
Further, the insignificance of Triptolemus and Eumolpus point to considerable antiquity, and the digamma is still active.
The original alphabet contained three letters which are now obsolete, one of which was digamma, the sixth letter.
It may be noted that another sherd bearing a fragmentary inscription which includes a digamma was found among the material examined this year.

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