Talk:Yodh

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"It may be related to the Egyptian hieroglyphic of an arm (see Hieroglyphs)." - Um, wouldn't it make more sense to it be related to the Hieroglpyph yod, ie Gardiner's M17 / i? Whats D36 / a got to do with yod? --220.239.15.104 03:44, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I was surprised by this, too... And the arm hieroglyph isn't even pronounced as yodh, it is actually an ayin. – Alensha   talk  01:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Double standard: So a citation is needed to mention that yod may be related to ancient Egypt but no citation is needed to mention that it may be connected to ancient semetic? That's blatantly biased against Egypt. To be consistent, at least both should require a citation. Very often bigoted editors use Wikipedia to spread their version of history and to white-wash the truth. --172.56.35.64 (talk) 13:23, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


 * The early Semitic forms are a drawing of a hand and variations on yad remain the word for "hand" in most modern Semitic languages, just as ʿayn is a drawing of an eye and means "eye" and the same goes with the rest of the entire script. The cite needed is because the Egyptian form might have been adapted but Ancient Egyptian is quite distant from the Semitic subfamily. There's no "whitewashing". Also, why is it "whitewashing", a term for the erasure of black identity and innovation? The Egyptians were Egyptian, not white or black, and the Semitic subfamily has an extremely wide range of peoples speaking it. Ogress 17:28, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I also found it weird to mention D36, since it doesn't look like the Hebrew yodh, is not pronounced like yodh, and has no available source connecting it to yodh. Since this was first brought up in 2006, with no source added after 15 years, I'm going to go ahead and delete it. 2601:281:D47F:FFE:4C72:7A6A:A211:D588 (talk) 21:04, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Y does not belong here.
Y does not belong on this page. It is derived from Waw, a.k.a. Vav. 47.187.192.67 (talk) 18:34, 26 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Fixed! AJD (talk) 21:02, 26 May 2021 (UTC)