Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic alphabet []. It represents a voiced alveolar fricative, IPA . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z З. The Proto-Canaanite glyph appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Hebrew, "Zayin" means sword, and the verb "Lezayen" means to arm). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may ha… (More on Zayin)