EZZOLIED, or ANEGENGE

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EZZOLIED, or ANEGENGE , an old German poem, written by Ezzo, a scholar of

Bamberg

BAMBERG

. It was written about 'ono, but not, as one authority asserts, composed while the author was making a

pilgrimage

PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

to Jerusalem. The subject of the poem is the life of Christ. Very popular during the later middle ages, the Ezzolied had a great influence on the poetry of south Germany, and is valuable as a monument of the poetical literature of the time.
The text is printed in the Denkmeiler deutscher Poesie and Prosa aus dem 8-12. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1892) of C. V. Mullenhoff and W. Scherer.
F This is the

sixth

SIXTH

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

of the English alphabet as it was of the Latin. In the

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

Greek alphabet the symbol has disappeared, although it survived far into historical times in many Greek dialects as F, the digamma, the use of which in early times was inductively proved by Bentley, when comparatively little was known of the local alphabets and dialects of Greece. The so-called stigma c, which serves for the numeral 6, is all that remains to represent it. This symbol derives its name from its resemblance in medieval MSS. to the abbreviation for o-r. The symbol occupying the same position in the Phoenician alphabet was Vau (t Lr)), which seems
to be represented by the Greek T, the Latin V, at the end of the early alphabet. Many authorities therefore contend that F is only a modification of the preceding symbol E and has nothing to do with the symbol Vau. In some early Latin

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

F is represented by II, as E is by II. It must be admitted that the resemblance between the

sixth

SIXTH

symbol of the Phoenician alphabet and the corresponding symbol of the European alphabet is not striking. But the position of the limbs of symbols in early alphabets often varies surprisingly. In Greek, besides F we find for f in Pamphylia (the only Greek district in Asia which possesses the symbol) N, and in Boeotia, Thessaly, Tarentum, Cumae and on Chalcidian vases of Italy the form E, though except at Cumae and on the vases the form F exists contemporaneously with E or even earlier. At the little town of Falerii (Civita Castellana), whose alphabet is undoubtedly of the same origin as the Latin, F takes the form'(`. Though uncertain, therefore, it seems not impossible that the

original

ORIGINAL

symbol of the Phoenician alphabet, which was a consonant like the English w, may have been differentiated in Greek into two symbols, one indicating the consonant value w and retaining the position of the Phoenician consonant Vau, the other having the vowel value u, which ultimately most dialects changed to a modified sound like French u or German ii. Be this as it may, the value of the symbol F in Greek was w, a bilabial voiced sound, not the labio-dental unvoiced sound which we call f. When the Romans adopted the Greek alphabet they took over the symbols with their Greek values. But Greek had no sound corresponding to the Latin f, for 4 was pronounced p-h, like the final sound of lip in

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

English or the initial sound of pig in Irish English. Consequently in the very old inscription on a gold fibula found at Praeneste and published in 1887 (see ALPHABET) the Latin f is represented by FB. Later, as Latin did not use F for the consonant written as v in vis, &c., H was dropped and F received a new

special

SPECIAL

value in Latin as representative of the unvoiced labio-dental spirant. In the Oscan and Umbrian dialects, whose alphabet was borrowed from

Etruscan

ETRUSCAN

, a

special

SPECIAL

form appears for f, viz. 8, the old form E being kept for the other consonant v (i.e. English w). The 8 has generally been asserted to be developed out of the second element in the combination FB, its upper and lower halves being first converted into lozenges, g, which naturally changed to 8 when inscribed without lifting the writing or incising implement.

Recent

RECENT

discoveries, however, make this doubtful
(see ALPHABET). (P. GI.)

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