Katerina Sarri webtopos - lamda in Greek alphabet

SHAPE: Half ancient cities of the Western-Eastern greek alphabet groups used L figure (as in the chalcidian alphabet used in Magna Graecia colonies in southern Italy) and the other half a shape close to Γ. The Ionian and Corinthian (from the city of Corinthos) alphabets used a shape close to Γ (its upper antenna stretched a bit downwards). It later took the form Λ.

SOUND: The palatal [

] utterance occurs in some instances before /ia,ie,io,iu/.

NAME: ETYMOLOGY: From semitic: lāmedth.
NAME: SPELLING: From its ancient greek pronunciation 'λάμβδα' [`lambda] we have the variants 'λάμδα' [`lamδa], 'λάβδα' [`lavδa] and 'λάμντα' [`lamda] and [`lamta].

COMBINATIONS: none
DOUBLED: sometimes double occurrence within a word. <λλ> was pronounced [ l l ] till the middle times. Cypriots, still pronounce both els: EΛΛAΔA (=Greece) [el` laδa] (while helladites pronounce it: [e`laδa].

MORE GREEK WORDS STARTING WITH LAMBDA
•λόγoς=speech/thought - ...logy λέξη=word - lectic,lexicon •λάρυγξ= larynx •λαβύρινθoς= labyrinth •λήμμα=lemma at a dictionary

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
11) λ´= 30 Λ λ transliteration: l	[l] consonant alveolar lateral approximant non-fricative	love	λάμβδα λάβδα λάμδα ['lamδa] lambda ['læmd]	helium ['hilım] gre.polytonic: ἥλιoν gre.monotonic: ήλιoν ['ilion]	λoγικό [loji'ko] logic(al) ['lodık]	λεξικόν [leksi'kon] lexicon ['leksıkn]
11) λ´= 30 Λ λ transliteration: l	[] consonant palatal lateral approximant	italian tagliatelle	λάμβδα λάβδα λάμδα ['lamδa] lambda ['læmd]	gre.polytonic: ἥλιoς erasmic: ['helios] gre.monotonic: ήλιoς= sun ['ios]	anc. and old gre: ελαία = olive [e'lea] erasmic: [e'laia] mod.gre: ελιά [e'a]