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English: In the earliest Greek inscriptions and always in Latin this symbol represented both the short and the long e-sound. In Greek also it was often used for the close long sound which arose either by contraction of two short e-sounds or by the loss of a consonant, after a short e-sound.
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Source Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
Author Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8, Slice 9., available freely at Project Gutenberg

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