roughbreathing

roughbreathing
rough breathing n.
1. An aspirate sound in ancient Greek like that of the sound (h) in English.
2. The symbol (ʽ) written over some initial vowels and the letter rho in ancient Greek to indicate that a word begins with the sound (h).
3. In ancient Greek, a word beginning with the sound (h) plus a vowel or diphthong.

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Universalium. 2010.

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