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<p>while  in borrowed words is instead commonly transcribed as u?. Letters that arose from beta include the Roman letter  and the Cyrillic letters  and .</p>

<p><big>Name</big></p>
<p>Like the names of most other Greek letters, the name of beta comes from the <a href="page.php?w=acrophony">acrophonic</a> name of the corresponding letter in <a href="page.php?w=Phoenician_alphabet">Phoenician</a>, which was the common <a href="page.php?w=Semitic_languages">Semitic</a> word <i>*bayt</i> ('house', compare  <i>bayt</i> and  <i>báyit</i>). In Greek, the name</p><p>
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