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In Croatia it's "ipsilon"

• airstrike 3y ago
  Also in Portuguese!
• askonomm 3y ago
  In Estonia it's both Igrek and Üpsilon. That said, the letter is not in Estonian alphabet and is considered a "foreign letter".
• coldtea 3y ago
  That would be its ancient Greek name. It was one of several "i" sounding vowels (like english has: i as in bin, e as in be, y as in gym, etc, roughly sounding the same). "Y" has "i psilon" meaning "high i" (literal) or "slim/bare i" (referring to how it was pronounced).
  • erutuon 3y ago
    Psilon in this case means plain or simple (as opposed to compound or two-letter), as in spelled with one letter, because when the name was coined in the Koine Greek period, υ was pronounced /y/ like οι (but not like ι as in Modern Greek yet). Similarly, epsilon (ε) was pronounced like αι (as it still is).