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Letter			Name^[1]	Meaning	Phoneme	Origin	Corresponding letter in
Image	Text	Variant	Name^[1]	Meaning	Phoneme	Origin	Samaritan	Hebrew
	𐤀‎		ʾālep	head of cattle (אלף)	ʾ [ʔ]	𓃾	ࠀ‎	א
	𐤁‎		bēt	house (בית)	b [b]	𓉐	ࠁ‎	ב
	𐤂‎		gīml	throwing stick (?)	g [ɡ]	𓌙	ࠂ‎	ג
	𐤃‎		dālet	door (דלת)	d [d]	𓇯	ࠃ‎	ד
	𐤄‎		hē	jubilation/window^[2]	h [h]	𓀠?	ࠄ‎	ה
	𐤅‎		wāw	hook (וו)	w [w]	𓏲	ࠅ‎	ו
	𐤆‎		zayin	weapon (זין)	z [z]	𓏭	ࠆ‎	ז
	𐤇‎		ḥēt(?)	courtyard/thread^[2]	ḥ [ħ]	𓉗/𓈈?	ࠇ‎	ח
	𐤈‎		ṭēt	wheel (?)^[3]	ṭ [tˤ]	?	ࠈ‎	ט
	𐤉‎		yōd	arm, hand (יד)	y [j]	𓂝	ࠉ‎	י
	𐤊‎		kāp	palm of a hand (כף)	k [k]	𓂧	ࠊ‎	כך
	𐤋‎		lāmed	goad (למד)^[4]	l [l]	𓌅	ࠋ‎	ל
	𐤌‎		mēm	water (מים)	m [m]	𓈖	ࠌ‎	מם
	𐤍‎		nūn	fish (נון)^[5]	n [n]	𓆓	ࠍ‎	נן
	𐤎‎		sāmek	pillar, support (סמך^[6])	s [s]	𓊽	ࠎ‎	ס
	𐤏‎		ʿayin	eye (עין)	ʿ [ʕ]	𓁹	ࠏ‎	ע
	𐤐‎		pē	mouth (פה)	p [p]	𓂋	ࠐ‎	פף
	𐤑‎		ṣādē	?^[7]	ṣ [sˤ]	?	ࠑ‎	צץ
	𐤒‎		qōp	?^[8]	q [q]	?	ࠒ‎	ק
	𐤓‎		rēš	head (ריש)	r [r]	𓁶	ࠓ‎	ר
	𐤔‎		šīn	tooth (שין)	š [ʃ]	𓌓	ࠔ‎	ש
	𐤕‎		tāw	mark, sign (תו)	t [t]	𓏴	ࠕ‎	ת

[1]
after Fischer, Steven R. (2001). A History of Writing. London: Reaction Books. p. 126.
[2]
The letters he and ḥēt continue three Proto-Sinaitic letters, ḥasir "courtyard", hillul "jubilation" and ḫayt "thread". The shape of ḥēt continues ḥasir "courtyard", but the name continues ḫayt "thread". The shape of he continues hillul "jubilation" but the name means "window".^{[citation needed]} see: He (letter)#Origins.
[3]
The glyph was taken to represent a wheel, but it possibly derives from the hieroglyph nefer hieroglyph 𓄤 and would originally have been called tab טוב "good".
[4]
The root l-m-d mainly means "to teach", from an original meaning "to goad". H3925 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979.
[5]
the letter name nūn is a word for "fish", but the glyph is presumably from the depiction of a snake, which would point to an original name נחש "snake".
[6]
H5564 in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979.
[7]
the letter name may be from צד "to hunt".
[8]
"The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' [...] Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot'." Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003.

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