Editing E (section)

==History==
{| class="wikitable"
! Egyptian hieroglyph<br>''qʼ''
!Proto-Sinaitic
!Proto-Canaanite hillul
! Phoenician<br/>[[he (letter)|He]]
! Western Greek<br/>[[Epsilon]]
! Etruscan<br/>E
! Latin<br/>E
|--- align=center
| <hiero>A28</hiero>
|[[Image:Proto-semiticE-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|40x40px]]
|[[File:Protohe.svg|class=skin-invert-image|40x40px]]
|[[File:PhoenicianE-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|40x40px]]
|[[File:Greek Epsilon archaic.svg|class=skin-invert-image|55px]]
|[[File:Alfabeto camuno-e.svg|class=skin-invert-image|40px]]
|[[File:Capitalis monumentalis E.svg|class=skin-invert-image|x30px|Latin E]]
|}

The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] letter [[epsilon]], 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the [[Semitic alphabet|Semitic]] letter ''[[He (letter)|hê]]'', which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (''hillul'', 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar [[Egyptian hieroglyph]] that indicated a different pronunciation.

In Semitic, the letter represented {{IPA|/h/}} (and {{IPA|/e/}} in foreign words); in Greek, ''hê'' became the letter [[epsilon]], used to represent {{IPA|/e/}}. The various forms of the [[Old Italic script]] and the [[Latin alphabet]] followed this usage.