rough breathing
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Tweet n. 1. An aspirate sound in ancient Greek like that of the sound (h) in English. 2. The symbol ( ʿ ) 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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