A commondigraph in English is⟨ph⟩, which represents the sound/f/, and can be used to transliterate⟨φ⟩phi in loanwords fromGreek. In German, the digraph⟨pf⟩ is common, representing a labialaffricate/pf/.
Most English words beginning with⟨p⟩ are of foreign origin, primarily French, Latin and Greek; these languages preserve theProto-Indo-European initial *p. Native English cognates of such words often start with⟨f⟩, since English is aGermanic language and thus has undergoneGrimm's law; a native English word with an initial/p/ would reflect Proto-Indo-European initial *b, which is sorare that its existence as aphoneme is disputed. However, native English words with non-initial⟨p⟩ are quite common; such words can come from eitherKluge's law or the consonant cluster/sp/ (PIE: *p has been preserved after s).
𐌐 :Old Italic andOld Latin P, which derives from Greek Pi, and is the ancestor of modern Latin P. The Roman P had this form (𐌐) on coins and inscriptions until the reign ofClaudius,c. 50 AD.
𐍀 :Gothic letter pertra/pairþa, which derives from Greek Pi
П п :Cyrillic letterPe, which derives from Greek Pi
Pence or "penny", the English slang for which isp (e.g. "20p" = 20 pence)
References
^"P",Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989);Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "pee," op. cit.
^Randel, Don Michael (2003).The Harvard Dictionary of Music (4th ed.). Cambridge, MA, US: Harvard University Press Reference Library.
^"Piano".Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary. Archived fromthe original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved19 March 2012.
^Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30)."L2/06-027: Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS"(PDF).Archived(PDF) from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved2018-03-24.
