I have sometimes wanted a list more convenient than digging into Seymour, Benner or Monro, so I produced a list from all three: Words with Digamma in Epic.
What’s the reason for εξ (six) to be placed in this category? Does it not follow the pattern like the rest of the s->h words?
I’ll have to dig into that, since I simply lifted it from Seymour’s list. It’s true that the list I present isn’t exactly “words that started with digamma” but “words which regularly cause hiatus or lengthen preceding short syllables.” Most of these were w-, but some were sw-.
That’s a great idea Will, thanks. I was surprised to see Ἴλιον on the list, I didn’t realize that.
I noticed one thing in the first paragraph, “The starting point my list”, presumably “of” or “for my list”.
And I noticed that Ἑκάτη wasn’t on the list, which would put you one up on Cunliffe. 
And when I checked Cunliffe just now for Ἑκάτη, to avoid looking stupid, I also noticed some words which aren’t on the list, but some of these might just fall under ἑκάς…
ἑκάε?γος
?κάτε?θεν
ἑκατηβελέτης
ἑκατηβόλος
ἕκατος
ἑκηβόλος
Now that I’ve had time to check my books…
Six shows a varied ancestry among the IE languages. Some go back to *seks, some to *sweks (Sihler). Monro cites several cases of not only hiatus but syllable-closing before ἕξ which would suggest Greek was in the *sweks group.
Drat. Thank you.
And I noticed that Ἑκάτη wasn’t on the list, which would put you one up on Cunliffe. >
I checked the index nominum to both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer not once mentions Hecate.
And when I checked Cunliffe just now for Ἑκάτη, to avoid looking stupid, I also noticed some words which aren’t on the list, but some of these might just fall under ἑκάς…
Hmm. I should work in some comment about compounds.
Thanks William for the clarification. I had forgotten about the *seks v. *sweks variation. I did know that. Great job, by the way!
I didn’t know that, so I’m happy to have done the digging.
Well, I guess I didn’t try hard enough to avoid looking stupid. But that’s very interesting. I’ve come across it a couple of times in the Hymn to Demeter, but searching Greek hexameter on Perseus, I see that it occurs again in epic only in one section of the Theogony. At least I learned something new…
Thanks again for the list!
I was reviewing my vocabulary in preparation for Iliad-β when I came across δό?υ δου?ός τό
According to Cunliffe, the spelling was influenced by the Digamma.
I am not sure if this is important for the purpose of your list but I mention it in case it is.
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Does δο??ός affect the scansion at all? I wouldn’t think so…
What is the fourth letter in δο??ός? (On my screen it looks like something midway between an Alpha and an Omicron.)
It’s the digamma.
Thanks. So what does a lower case Digamma look like? It appears a lot like the “at” sign. (@)
And what is the keystroke for it?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
Both large and small a digamma should look a lot like ‘F’.
And what is the keystroke for it?
That will depend on your keyboard input method/program.
Maybe my unicode font (from Keyman) does not include any of the obsolete letters so it gives me this @ looking thing.
What is it in SPIonic.
My unicode font has very similar keying to Spionic
Uppercase ‘V’.
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