[gothic-l] Re: letter P

[Francisc Czobor]

Hello, Eivor,

do you mean the sign for P in Wulfila's alphabet? It is indeed 
borrowed from Greek, like actually most letters of this writing 
system, which was deviced by Wulfila as a Christian Gothic alphabet 
to replace the pagan runes. Only a few letters were kept from the 
runic writing: U, Hw and Th, as far as I remember, while others are 
rather from Latin than from Greek (F, H, Q).

Francisc

GUTANI WIHAILAG

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Kirsten Eivor Bekkhus" 
<kieibek at o...> wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I thought I knew the sign for P until a friend said it probably was 
a borrowing from Greek (pi), used in lack of an original sign. Can 
anyone tell me about this?
>  
> Eivor
> 
> ____________________
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> 
> 
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