Ϝ ϝ(ϝ), also <*>, sixth letter of the oldest Gr. alphabets, pronouncedlikeEngl.
A. w,
IG 9(1).334 ( Locr. , V B.C.), 4.333 , 14.2420 , Alcm. 23.6 , Sapph. Supp. 1.6 , Corinn.ib. 1.29 , etc.; it was written in many dialects untilii B.C.(and pronounced even later); in others (incl. Ion. and Att. ) it died out (with the sound) before the date of the earliest Inscrr., surviving only as a numeral,= 6 , in the form <*>, SIG 46.106 (Halic., V B.C.), IG 12.760 (Athens, V B.C.), PCair.Zen. 13.4
(iii B.C.),BMus.Cat.Coins, Egypt Pl.XVI 4 ( 200 / 199 B.C.), later in the formζ, ib.Egypt Pl.XXX 5 ( 47 B.C.), PMag.Lond. 121.770 (iii A.D., Pl. 61 ) and medieval Mss. Its name wasϝαῦ(cf. Semiticwāw) acc. to Varro and Didymus (v. Varro LL p.209 G.- S. ), laterδίγαμμα(q.v.). (Words with initialϝwill bc found under the second letter.)