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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- ! Proto-Sinaitic ! Phoenician<br />waw ! Western Greek<br />Digamma ! Etruscan<br />V or W ! Latin<br />F |- | | | | | |} The origin of ⟨F⟩ is the Semitic letter waw, which represented the sound . It probably originally depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph such as that which represented the word mace (transliterated as ḥ(dj)): <hiero>T3</hiero> The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, upsilon (which resembled its descendant ⟨Y⟩ but was also the ancestor of the Roman letters ⟨U⟩, ⟨V⟩, and ⟨W⟩); and, with another form, as a consonant, digamma, which indicated…