tet

t- + -e- + -t

Phö. 09 𐤈 ṭēt, Tet

Ara. 09 ט Tet

Gri.

Etr.

Lat.

Rune

Dt.

• Ursprung
  • Tet ist ein Konsonant, der sich vermutlich von der Darstellung einer Garnrolle oder eines Rades herleitet. Im Griechischen wurde daraus der Buchstabe Theta. Keine lateinische Entsprechung.
  • Teth, also written as Ṭēth or Tet, is a letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ṭēt , Hebrew Ṭēt ט, Aramaic Ṭēth , Syriac Ṭēṯ ܛ, and Arabic Ṭāʾ ط. It is the 16th letter of the modern Arabic alphabet. The Persian ṭa is pronounced as a hard "t" sound and is the 19th letter in the modern Persian alphabet. The Phoenician letter also gave rise to the Greek theta (Θ), originally an aspirated voiceless alveolar stop but now used for the voiceless dental fricative.
  • The Phoenician letter name ṭēth may mean "spinning wheel"^[2] pictured as  (compare Hebrew root ט-ו-י meaning 'spinning' (a thread) which begins with Teth). According to another hypothesis (Brian Colless^{[citation needed]}), the letter possibly continues a Middle Bronze Age glyph named ṭab 'good', Aramaic טַב 'tav', Hebrew טוב 'tov', Syriac ܛܒܐ 'tava', modern Arabic طَيّب ṭayyib, all of identical meaning, whose picture is based on the Nefer 'good' hieroglyph common in ancient Egyptian names (e.g. Nefertiti):