• The smooth breathing (Ancient Greek: ψιλὸν πνεῦμα, romanized: psilòn pneûma; Greek: ψιλή psilí; Latin: spiritus lenis) is a diacritical mark used in polytonic...
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  • it is not used at all. The absence of an /h/ sound is marked by the smooth breathing. The character, or those with similar shape such as U+02BB ʻ MODIFIER...
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  • different kinds of pitch accent rough breathing (῾) indicates the presence of the /h/ sound before a letter smooth breathing (᾿) indicates the absence of /h/...
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  • comes from the Greek ψίλωσις psílōsis ("smoothing, thinning out") and is related to the name of the smooth breathing (ψιλή psilḗ), the sign for the absence...
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  • of two so-called "breathing marks": the rough breathing (ἁ), marking an /h/ sound at the beginning of a word, or the smooth breathing (ἀ), marking its...
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  • other breathing organs. Breathing may also refer to: One of two Greek diacritics: Rough breathing, which represents h Smooth breathing, which represents the...
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  • accordingly written with a rough breathing. The later standard spelling of the name eta, however, has the smooth breathing. Under the Roman emperor Claudius...
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  • Ἀἀ Alpha with smooth breathing Archaic letter denoting the absence of /h/ prior to the vowel Ἄἄ Alpha with acute and smooth breathing Archaic letter...
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    omega with titlo (Ѽ  ѽ). It descends from the Greek omega with the smooth breathing (psili) and circumflex (perispomeni) diacritical marks (Ὦ ὦ), also...
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  • rough breathing, equivalent to h (ῥ rh), and a double rho within a word is written with a smooth breathing over the first rho and a rough breathing over...
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  • In Byzantine and modern copies of Ancient Greek, the "rough" and "smooth breathings" (ἁ, ἀ) appear above the letter. In Latvian, Romanian, and Livonian...
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  • Greek eta, but since enthalpy comes from ἐνθάλπος, which begins in a smooth breathing and epsilon, it is more likely a Latin H for 'heat'. In information...
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  • Breathing (spiration or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into (inhalation) and out of (exhalation) the lungs to facilitate gas exchange...
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    of pitch accent on the stressed vowel; the so-called breathing marks (rough and smooth breathing), originally used to signal presence or absence of word-initial...
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  • to smooth breathing in Unicode. (For instance, τἀμά uses the character U+1F00 ἀ GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI; psili means smooth breathing.) Unlike...
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    Alkyóne originally is written with a smooth breathing mark, but this false origin beginning with a rough breathing mark (transliterated as the letter H)...
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    from other similar forms. Modern Church Slavonic orthography uses the smooth breathing sign (Greek and Church Slavonic: psili, Latin: spiritus lenis) above...
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  • consonant List of phonetic topics Phonation Preaspiration Rough breathing Smooth breathing Tenuis consonant (Unaspirated consonant) Voice onset time Ladefoged...
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  • beginning of a word, the letters υ and ρ always have the rough breathing. The smooth breathing ( ᾿ ; known as ψῑλὸν πνεῦμα (psilòn pneûma) or ψῑλή (psilē)...
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    Alkyóne originally is written with a smooth breathing mark, but this false origin beginning with a rough breathing mark (transliterated as the letter H)...
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  • fast-thumping heart and heavy breathing, which travel from left to right thanks to Hugo Zuccarelli's Holophonics system. "Smooth Criminal" peaked at number...
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  • second in a pair of medial rhos were always considered to involve rough breathing whether marked or not. In the diphthongs αυ, ευ, ηυ, ου, υι, ωυ. ELOT...
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    ⊣ used by Aristophanes of Byzantium to represent the rough breathing and smooth breathing of Greek around 200 BC. The half H is found in Latin inscriptions...
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  • be carefully distinguished from polytonic Greek's native rough and smooth breathing marks, which usually appear as a form of rounded apostrophe. In Hebrew...
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  • some data sources, breathing is normally seen before a tonal accent, and one implementation defines a canonical order of breathing, accent, iota subscript...
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  • to the transliteration of alef (glottal stop, hamza) by the Greek smooth breathing mark ⟨᾽⟩, rendered as single closing quotation mark or as raised semi-circle...
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    (ヰ) from katakana script with modern kana wa (ワ) and small i (ィ). A smooth breathing mark before the Greek omega (Ω) was deleted and Russian Short I (Й)...
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  • δασύ ('rough breathing'). Finally, a diacritic representing the absence of /h/ was created, and it was called πνεῦμα ψιλόν ('smooth breathing'). The diacritics...
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  • Alkyóne originally is written with a smooth breathing mark, but this false origin beginning with a rough breathing mark (transliterated as the letter H)...
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    abdomen during normal breathing is sometimes referred to as "abdominal breathing", although it is, in fact, "diaphragmatic breathing", which is not visible...
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