E is a vowel and the fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. E differs little from its derivational source, the Greek letter epsilon. In etymology, the Semitic hˆ has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (hillul 'jubilation'), and was probably based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter represented h (and e in foreign words), in Greek ˆ became epsilon with the value /e/.

• AP Letter D Puzzle 1.0
  The Semitic letter Dƒlet may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient...

• SA Letter I Puzzle 1.0
  I (named i, plural ies) is the ninth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet

• RA Letter H Puzzle 1.0
  H (named aitch, plural aitches, or haitch) is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The Semitic letter most likely represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (h). The form of the letter probably stood for a fence or posts. The Greek...

• AA Letter C Puzzle 1.0
  C for Cookie Monster

• AS Letter K Puzzle 1.0
  Did you know that In English, the letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive; this sound is also transcribed by /k/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA. The letter K comes from the Greek letter (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kap, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semites who...

• CA Letter F Puzzle 1.0
  The origin of f is the Semitic letter vƒv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/

• OJP Letter F Puzzle 1.0
  The origin of f is the Semitic letter vƒv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically, it originally probably depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph, such as that which...