Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician 𐤆, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac ܙ and Arabic alphabet []. It represents a voiced alveolar fricative, IPA /z/. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze 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 glyp… (More on Zayin)