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The Etymology of ‘gamma’ in Ancient Greek. Figure 1:   A capital ‘gamma’ on the left, and a small ‘gamma’ on the right. In Classical Greek, the third letter of the alphabet is: or: or: γάμμα or: ‘gámma’ or: ‘gamma’ .  This Ancient-Greek letter is said to be cognate with the Hebrew letter: Gimmel Hebrew Letter ...

The Qamats Vowel in Hebrew. The Qāmats: A Qāmats is a Nikkud symbol [1] . Qamats Hebrew Vowel Figure 1:   A Qamats symbol that I coded in SVG. Figure 2:   What the SVG image in Figure 1 looks like when exported as a PNG. Figure 3:   The SVG code that generated the vector image: Figure 1 . A Qāmats is a Hebrew vowel that denotes a long-a sound [2] . The Qāmats-hey (-ah) [3] suffix, in Hebrew, usually denotes a feminine noun, and is a feature of such girl’s names as ‘Leah,’ [4] . which, I think, means ‘s...