Kyoichi886 was published on: 2007-3- 16 12:50 Source: Eulogy of Almighty.

The appearance of Roman characters began around 3000 BC. People in ancient Egypt used characters (hieroglyphs) to represent the shapes of gods, people, animals and plants, and nature (mountains, rivers, etc.). ) to represent the shapes of decorations, weapons, farm tools, daily necessities, etc. This hieroglyph not only influenced the present alphabet, but also influenced Arabic and Hindi characters. Egyptians wrote on plant fibers called papyrus. The word paper comes from papyrus. The Phoenician maritime trade flourished in 2000-800 BC, and they created the Phoenician alphabet according to Egyptian hieroglyphics. Around 1000 BC, the ancient Greeks created a 24-letter alphabet written from left to right with Phoenician letters. The etymology of Alphabet is Greek alpha(a)beta(B). The establishment of the Roman alphabet was due to the active Etruscans in 800-500 BC. The reading of the alphabet comes from their reading. The alphabet used by the ancient Romans for Latin writing is now 26 letters of A-Z minus 23 letters of J, U and W. G is a letter invented by the Romans to distinguish it from the sound [k] of C and record the sound [g]. After entering the10th century, U was separated from V. In the110th century, W was used to express the sound of [w], and in the15th century, J was separated from I. There are many opinions about the origin of English letters in the world, but generally speaking (according to Funk's Funk "The Origin of Words" It should be said that this statement has a certain basis. Because the Bible is the root of western civilization, it records the history of the Jews (Hebrew). Now, the two important etymologies of English, the ancestors of Greece and Latin, are also Hebrew. Hebrew itself is hieroglyphics. Therefore, a large number of words in modern English reveal the characteristics of hieroglyphics. For example, A stands for "bull's head", which means "sharp and sharp", thus leading to various words expressing "sharp" such as "ace", "aciform" and "acid". However, with the continuous development of history and civilization, characters have also incorporated a lot of cultural connotations. Therefore, many modern English words cannot be derived from hieroglyphics, such as the place "apogee", which consists of two parts. Apo means "faraway place" and "gee" means "land", in which apo comes from Apollo, the Apollo sun god, which means "expedition, faraway place". Please listen to the lecture on the origin of vocabulary. ) Let's briefly analyze the origin of the 26 letters, and illustrate with examples: A a is like a Chinese character derived from hieroglyphics. Each letter in the English alphabet begins with a picture depicting the shape of an animal or an object, and these pictures eventually evolve into symbols. However, these symbols have little similarity with the shape of the object originally described. No one is sure what these hieroglyphs originally represented. Our explanation can only be an informed guess made by scholars based on historical materials. It is generally believed that Greek letters are the ancestors of all western letters, including Latin letters. In fact, the Greek alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians. About 3000 years ago, in the Phoenician alphabet, the letter A was pronounced aleph, which looked like the letter V, and there was a bar in the middle to represent the cow's head or horn. Later the Greeks wrote backwards. For ancient Phoenicians, cattle meant wealth and were indispensable for food, clothing and farming. This may be the reason why A is listed as the initial letter. Like A, the letter B can be traced back to ancient Phoenicia. In the Phoenician alphabet, b is called beth, which stands for house. In Hebrew, B is also called Beth, which also means house. The letter B originally looked like a two-bedroom apartment in primitive society, and the lowercase letter B later evolved from the uppercase letter B. In today's West Bank, there is a Jewish and Christian holy place called Bethlehem. Beth is still included in this word. B ranks second in the alphabet, perhaps because shelter is second only to food and clothing for human survival. C c letter c is called gimel in Phoenician language, which stands for camel. Its arrangement in the alphabet is the same as the Greek letter I(gamma), but in fact its glyph evolved from the latter. C stands for 100 in Roman numerals. D, D, D is a hieroglyph, which depicts the shape of ancient arches or doors. In ancient Phoenician and Hebrew, it is called daleth, which means "gate" and is equivalent to the Greek letter δ (delta). E e E is the most used letter in English. In Phoenician and Hebrew, e is a hieroglyphic symbol representing a window, called He, which is equivalent to the Greek letter E(epsilon). F f F (the sixth letter of the English alphabet) comes from the sixth pictographic letter in Phoenicia, which looks like the English letter Y today, representing cork or pegs. Its name is waw in Phoenician and Hebrew. In the Middle Ages, the left cheek of a felon was usually marked with an F as a symbol of punishment. G g In the ancient Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets, G is a hieroglyphic letter describing the outline of camel's head and neck, and its name is gimel. Later, the Greeks borrowed this symbol as gamma. In fact, the letter G and the letter C come from the same Phoenician letter. There is no letter G in the original Latin alphabet, and words with G and K sounds are represented by the letter C. After the 3rd century BC, the ancient Romans created G according to C. Since then, C stands for K sound and G stands for G sound. Like other letters, H can be traced back to Phoenician letters through Latin letters and Greek letters. In Phoenician, the letter corresponding to H has two bars, which respectively represent fences or fences, and the letters are named heth or cheth. The ninth letter I of I i comes from the Phoenician hieroglyphic letter yod/yodh, which is considered to represent human fingers. The initial lowercase letter I has no dots. After the dot 1 1 century on filii, scribes began to add it to distinguish the letter I from the letter U. In addition, before the19th century, the written or printed forms of I and J were interchangeable, and dictionaries did not regard them as two different letters. For example, in the English dictionary compiled by samuel johnson (1709- 1784), iambic is between jamb and jangle. English I is equivalent to Greek I(iota). The letter J j was born around 1630 in the post-Shakespeare era, and V is also known as the lightest two letters in the English alphabet. There is no letter J or J in the King James Bible of James I published in 16 1 year. Just as G is based on C, J is derived from I, that is, a tail is added to I. However, until the19th century, the written or printed forms of I and J were interchangeable, and they were not completely separated. The root of the letter K can also be traced back to the ancient Phoenicians. In the Phoenician alphabet, k is a hieroglyphic symbol, representing the human hand. It is called kaph in Hebrew, which means "hand (palm)". The Greeks borrowed it as K(kappa). In ancient Rome, a slanderer was marked with a K on his forehead, and K stands for kalumnia, which is equivalent to slander in English. L l In the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets, l is called lamed/lamedh, which is a hieroglyphic symbol, representing cattle drive or whip. The corresponding letter in Greek is A(lambda). M m, like other letters, can be traced back to the ancient Phoenicians. Phoenicians are brave in exploration and are famous for their maritime trade. They sailed all the way to the Spanish coast. In the Phoenician alphabet, m is an icon representing the shape of a wave. It is called mem in Hebrew, which means "water". The corresponding letter in Greek is M(mu). In the middle ages, people who committed manslaut were often branded with the mark of M on their left thumb. M stands for 1000 in Roman numerals (mille in Latin). N n letter N is wavy in Egyptian hieroglyphics, called nun in Phoenician, meaning "fish", while the corresponding letter in Greek is N(nu). O o Many languages have letters that look like O, all of which represent human eyes. In some ancient alphabets, a dot is added after O to indicate students. In Phoenician, O is called cayin, which means "eyes", and in old English, O is called oedel, which means "home". P p P, the letter 16 of the English alphabet, was called pe by ancient Phoenicians and Hebrews, meaning "mouth". The corresponding letter in Greek is II(pi). /kloc-In the 6th century, a Dominican friar named Placentius wrote a poem called "Pugna Bo Collum", which consists of 253 lines and six steps, and the first letter of each word in the poem is P, which is probably unique in ancient times and today. Q q Q, the17th letter of the English alphabet, comes from the19th hieroglyphic letter in Phoenician and Hebrew. Q is shaped a bit like a monkey with its tail hanging. No wonder the Phoenicians called the letter qoph, which means "monkey". Q is almost always followed by U in English, and unless it is a foreign word, it rarely appears at the end of the word. R r R, the18th letter of the English alphabet, comes from the 20th hieroglyphic letter in Phoenician and Hebrew. The Phoenicians called it resh, which means "head". Since ancient Roman times, R has been called the dog's letter or growling letter, because the meaning of R is quite similar to the dog's barking R-R-R or G R-R-R. British playwright and poet ben johnson (1572-1637)1636 wrote in his book English Grammar for the benefit of all strangers: "R is the letter of a dog, which is urgent in sound; In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's nanny and Romeo said that Romeo and rosemary, a flower often associated with weddings, both start with the letter R and are called R dog names. S s In Phoenician and Hebrew, s is called shin/sin, which means "tooth". The shape of letters is quite similar to that of today's W, but now the glyphs are gradually evolved after entering Latin. The corresponding letter in Greek is ε(sigma). T t Today's letter T comes from the Phoenician hieroglyphic Mother of Silence. Early hieroglyphics, like today's letter X, were called taw, which means "mark". The Greek letter based on this symbol is T(tau). The letter U comes from the letter V. For hundreds of years before19th century, these two letters, like I and J, have always been interchangeable and have never been distinguished in English dictionaries. For example, books published in 16 and 17 centuries are usually spelled upon, while have is usually spelled haue. Even in 1847, the English dictionary published by Henry washburne Company in London still followed this convention. V v is one of the two youngest letters in the English alphabet (plus a j), which appeared after Shakespeare's time, about 1630. But V is also the ancestor of three letters, such as U, W, Y, and even F can be said to come from V, which comes from the sixth hieroglyphic letter in the Phoenician alphabet of BC 1000, which is similar to the English letter Y today and is called waw, meaning "cork" or "wooden nail". After 900 BC, the Greeks borrowed this letter and derived two letters, one of which later evolved into the English letter F, and the other evolved into V and Y. Before19th century, the letters V and U were inseparable and interchangeable. In Roman numerals, v stands for 5. W w, like U and Y, is also derived from V. In fact, W is composed of double V, which should be read as double V..w is read as double U, because U and V were inseparable and interchangeable centuries before19th century. V is the symbol of V and U. Even when U is pronounced, it is often written as V. For example, upon is often spelled vpon. French letters are pronounced as double V, Xx. The 24th letter of the English alphabet is equivalent to the 22nd letter X(chi) of the Greek alphabet. In fact, the former is borrowed from the latter, while the latter comes from a Phoenician hieroglyphic letter representing "fish", pronounced samekh. X stands for 10 in Roman numerals, and is usually used to represent unknowns in algebra and mathematics. When algebra was introduced into Europe from Arabia, the word shei, which means "unknown" in Arabic, was translated into xei, so the initials X became the common code name of unknown. There is another saying about the origin of the letter X: X was originally a pictographic symbol for kissing. If it's written as an X, it's a bit like kissing with two mouths. This explanation may come from folk etymology. Yy Y can be said to come from V, but if the root of Y can be traced back to the Greek letter υ (upsilon) called Pythagoras. Y is often used in algebra to represent the second unknown. Zz Z is pronounced Zed in British English, zee in American English, but izzard in old English. Z comes from the sixth letter Z(zeta) in Greek and is borrowed from Phoenician. Z basically means Zeus, the master of the universe.

A 26-letter list of sources and meanings

A: Cow's head (V is the same) B: Room/Bird's beak C: Angle/Circumference/Circle (G is the same) D: Door/Tatar E: Person who raises his hand F: Fire/Gone with the Wind G: Girl H: Horse/Ladder I: Hand J: Jump/God K: Emperor L: Water/Whip M.

Maybe I haven't found the right one, but that's all I can do. You make a reference.