yod
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yod /jɒd/
▶noun
- 1 the tenth and smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- 2 Phonetics the semivowel or glide /j/.
– origin from Heb. yōḏ; rel. to yaḏ ‘hand’.
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