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See also:AZYMITES (Gr. It-, without; Sµn, See also:leaven)
, a name given by the Orthodox Eastern to the Western or Latin See also: He gained a See also:prize of 12,000 gulden (about £1000) for his new method of employing See also:Glauber's salts instead of potash in the making of See also:glass . From 1817 to 1820 he held the See also:post of See also:superintendent of mines, and was raised to the See also:rank of See also:nobility for his services . He retired in 1820, and soon after published one of the best of his works, Fermenta Cognitionis, 6 parts, 1822-1825, in which he combats modern philosophy This letter corresponds to the second See also:symbol in the Phoenician See also:alphabet, and appears in the same position See also:Bin all the See also:European alphabets, except those derived, like the See also:Russian, from See also:medieval See also:Greek, in which the See also:pronunciation of this symbol had changed from b to v . A new See also:form had therefore to be invented for the genuine b in See also:Slavonic, to which there was, at the period when the alphabet was adopted, no corresponding See also:sound in Greek . The new symbol, which occupies the second position, was made by removing the upper See also:loop of B, thus producing a symbol somewhat resembling an See also:ordinary See also:lower-See also:case b . The old B retained the numerical value of the Greek (3 as 2, and no numerical value was given to the new symbol, In the Phoenician alphabet the earliest forms are 9 or more rounded 9 . The rounded form appears also in the earliest Aramaic (see ALPHABET) . Like some other alphabetic symbols it was not borrowed by Greek in its See also:original form . In the very early See also:rock See also:inscriptions of See also:Thera (7oo–60o B.C.), written from right to See also:left; it appears in a form resembling the ordinary Greek X; this form apparently arose from See also:writing the Semitic symbol upside down . Its form in inscriptions of Melos, See also:Selinus, See also:Syracuse and elsewhere in the 6th and 5th centuries suggests the See also:influence of Aramaic forms in which the See also:head of the letter is opened, Y The Corinthian (U, I l and 7,, (also at Corcyra) and the r f of See also:Byzantine coins are other adaptations of the same symbol . The form C which it takes in the alphabets of See also:Naxos, See also:Delos and other Ionic islands at the same period is difficult to explain . Otherwise its only variation is between pointed and rounded loops (g and B) . The sound which the symbol represents is the voiced stop made by closing the lips and vibrating the vocal chords (see See also:PHONETICS) . It differs from p by the presence of vibration of the vocal chords and from m because the nasal passage as well as the lips is closed . When an audible emission of breath attends its See also:production the aspirate bh is formed . This sound was frequent in the See also:pro-ethnic period of the Indo-European See also:languages and survived into the Indo-See also:Aryan languages . According to the See also:system of phonetic changes generally known as " See also:Grimm's See also:law," an original b appears in See also:English as p, an original bh as b . An original medial p preceding the See also:chief See also:accent of the word also appears as b in English and the other members of the same See also:group . It is not certain that any English word is descended from an original word beginning with b, though it has been suggested that peg is of the same origin as the Latin baculum and the Greek j3axrpov . When the lips are not tightly closed the sound produced is not a stop, but a spirant like the English w . In See also:Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused . When this consonantal u (English w as seen in words borrowed very early from Latin like See also:wall and See also:wine) passed into the sound of English v (labio-dental) is not certain, but Germanic words borrowed into Latin in the 5th century A.D. have in their Latin See also:representation gu- for Germanic w-, guises corresponding to English See also:wise and reborrowed indirectly as See also:guise . The earliest form of the name of the symbol which we can reach is the See also:Hebrew beth, to which the Phoenician must have been closely akin, as is shown by the Greek Ara, which is borrowed from it with a vowel affixed . (P .
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