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Originally Posted by Archaea
the apostrophe here doesn't denote an "H" sound? Or is that supposed to be an aigu accent? I kinda thought it was an "h", but correct me as I'm self-taught [i.e., I'm an idiot who didn't recognize the digamma, remember].
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That's a smooth breathing mark. The rough breathing mark (with the H sound) faces the other way. Most texts will have either a rough or smooth breathing mark at the beginning of every word that starts with a vowel, though I've seen several that have only the rough breathing mark.