The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. In Semitic, the letter represented /h/ (and /e/ in foreign words) in Greek, hê became the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hê, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure ( hillul 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. 4.3 Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations.4.2 Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets.4.1 Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet.
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