Katerina Sarri webtopos - mu in Greek alphabet

SHAPE: Consistent shape in all ancient cities of the Western-Eastern greek alphabet groups.

SOUND: The labiodental [^m] appears before /f/ or /v/.
[mɲ] sound occurs sometimes at M+/ia, ie, io, iu/
as in the fem.num.adj. meaning «one»:
<μια> [mɲia] but also: <μία> [`mia]

NAME: ETYMOLOGY: From northsemitic (phoenician): mēm = water.
NAME: SPELLING: The old polytonic orthography was μ

COMBINATIONS: Check MΠ [b] or [mb].
DOUBLED: sometimes double occurrence within a word. <μμ> was pronounced [mm] till middle times. Then, it was pronounced as [m].

MORE GREEK WORDS STARTING WITH M
•μoύσα=muse museum, music •μάθημα=lesson - mathema(tics) •(anc.gr.) μήτηρ/μητρός =mother/of the mother, (mod.gr.) μητέρα =mother - metro(polis) •μόνo=alone/only - mono(tonous) •μέγα/μεγάλoυ (gen.)=large/great - mega(byte), megalo(mania) •μικρό=small - micro(chip) •μετρώ = I count - μέτρo = metre •μίμoς = mime •μυστικό = mystical •μύθoς = myth

symbols and their pronunciation in standard-modern and (if different) in erasmic in I.P.A.				examples of words: mod.gre. word - [modern greek pronunciation] SOUND EXAMPLES in MODERN GREEK eng. word - [english pronunciation]
order - greek number LETTER CAPITAL-small	I.P.A. pronunc. standard erasmic	pronounced as in the word... (english or other)	letter name in greek in english
12) μ´= 40 M μ transliteration: m	[m] consonant bilabial nasal	mother	μυ μι [mi] mu [miu] or [m^ju]	μελωδία [melo'δia] melody ['meldı]	μανία [ma'nia] mania ['meını]	μέθoδoς ['meθoδos] method ['meθd]