KATERINA SARRI WEBTOPOS - ZETA in GREEK ALPHABET

SHAPE: In most of the ancient cities of the Western-Eastern greek alphabet groups its shape that looked like I was used, while in others, there was no symbol.

SOUND: Phonological research shows that initially, zeta (Z) was pronounced as a double consonant: /zd/. Or according to others: /dz/. The greeks loved using monogrammes for a fast double consonant utterance see also Ξ (ksi), Ψ (psi), Θ (theta), Φ (phi) and X (chi). Today's pronunciation [z] comes from 4th a.e.v. century. Till that time, the sound /z/ was heard when the letter sigma (Σ) appeared before loud consonants. e.g. cosmos is still pronounced [`kozmos]

. There is no postalveolar [

] sound in greek (as in french word: je).

NAME: ETYMOLOGY from northsemitic (phoenician): zayin or the Aramaic: zayit.
NAME: SPELLING In polytonic script, its hellenistic stress accent is perispomene: ζ

τα

COMBINATIONS: TZ [dz].
DOUBLED: No double occurrences.

MORE GREEK WORDS STARTING WITH Zeta
•ζωή = life hence ζώo=animal •ζώνη=belt=zone

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
6) ζ´= 7 Z ζ transliteration: z	[z] consonant voiced alveolar fricative erasmic [zd] or [dz]	zoo	ζήτα ['zita] zeta ['zit] U.S.['zeıt]	ζώo =animal ['zoo] zoo [zu]	ζωδιακό [zoδia'ko] zodiac ['zυdıæk]	ζήλoς ['zilos] zeal [zil]