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EZZOLIED, or ANEGENGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 111 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EZZOLIED, or ANEGENGE , an old See also:German poem, written by See also:Ezzo, a See also:scholar of See also:Bamberg. It was written about 'ono, but not, as one authority asserts, composed while the author was making a See also:pilgrimage to See also:Jerusalem. The subject of the poem is the See also:life of See also:Christ. Very popular during the later See also:middle ages, the Ezzolied had a See also:great See also:influence on the See also:poetry of See also:south See also:Germany, and is valuable as a See also:monument of the poetical literature of the See also:time. The See also:text is printed in the Denkmeiler deutscher Poesie and Prosa aus dem 8-12. Jahrhundert (See also:Berlin, 1892) of C. V. Mullenhoff and W. See also:Scherer. F This is the See also:sixth See also:letter of the See also:English See also:alphabet as it was of the Latin. In the See also:ordinary See also:Greek alphabet the See also:symbol has disappeared, although it survived far into See also:historical times in many Greek dialects as F, the digamma, the use of which in See also:early times was inductively proved by See also:Bentley, when comparatively little was known of the See also:local alphabets and dialects of See also:Greece. The so-called stigma c, which serves for the See also:numeral 6, is all that remains to represent it.

This symbol derives its name from its resemblance in See also:

medieval See also:MSS. to the See also:abbreviation for o-r. The symbol occupying the same position in the Phoenician alphabet was Vau (t Lr)), which seems to be represented by the Greek T, the Latin V, at the end of the early alphabet. Many authorities therefore contend that F is only a modification of the preceding symbol E and has nothing to do with the symbol Vau. In some early Latin See also:inscriptions F is represented by II, as E is by II. It must be admitted that the resemblance between the sixth symbol of the Phoenician alphabet and the corresponding symbol of the See also:European alphabet is not striking. But the position of the limbs of symbols in early alphabets often varies surprisingly. In Greek, besides F we find for f in See also:Pamphylia (the only Greek See also:district in See also:Asia which possesses the symbol) N, and in See also:Boeotia, See also:Thessaly, See also:Tarentum, See also:Cumae and on Chalcidian vases of See also:Italy the See also:form E, though except at Cumae and on the vases the form F exists contemporaneously with E or even earlier. At the little See also:town of See also:Falerii (Civita Castellana), whose alphabet is undoubtedly of the same origin as the Latin, F takes the form'(`. Though uncertain, therefore, it seems not impossible that the See also:original symbol of the Phoenician alphabet, which was a consonant like the English w, may have been differentiated in Greek into two symbols, one indicating the consonant value w and retaining the position of the Phoenician consonant Vau, the other having the vowel value u, which ultimately most dialects changed to a modified See also:sound like See also:French u or German ii. Be this as it may, the value of the symbol F in Greek was w, a bilabial voiced sound, not the labio-dental unvoiced sound which we See also:call f. When the See also:Romans adopted the Greek alphabet they took over the symbols with their Greek values. But Greek had no sound corresponding to the Latin f, for 4 was pronounced p-h, like the final sound of See also:lip in ordinary English or the initial sound of See also:pig in Irish English.

Consequently in the very old inscription on a See also:

gold fibula found at See also:Praeneste and published in 1887 (see ALPHABET) the Latin f is represented by FB. Later, as Latin did not use F for the consonant written as v in vis, &c., H was dropped and F received a new See also:special value in Latin as representative of the unvoiced labio-dental spirant. In the Oscan and Umbrian dialects, whose alphabet was borrowed from See also:Etruscan, a special form appears for f, viz. 8, the old form E being kept for the other consonant v (i.e. English w). The 8 has generally been asserted to be See also:developed out of the second See also:element in the See also:combination FB, its upper and See also:lower halves being first converted into lozenges, g, which naturally changed to 8 when inscribed without lifting the See also:writing or incising See also:implement. See also:Recent discoveries, however, make this doubtful (see ALPHABET). (P.

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