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(Digammas? Digammai? Digammata?)
This question revolved around a dialectal form that I'd never seen before. Normally when encountering a new Greek word, Attic or otherwise, my first instinct is to look it up in Perseus.
However, the input guide on Perseus doesn't list digamma. Is there a better way to look up a word like Aeolic ϝε? (I'm not even sure if LSJ include forms like that.)
If you can enter searches in Beta code (which is what LSJ is underlyingly in), the Beta code for digamma is V.
If I enter "ve" in the link you gave, Perseus understands it well enough, but says it has no matches: "Sorry, no information was found for ϝε."
Having extensively customised the LSJ and Morpheus for the TLG, I have to say, I'm not that surprised. The TLG (for which I no longer work) certainly will recognise it.
ve in the TLG's LSJ gives only one hit, Ϝέλχανος. How would I search in order to find the actual word ϝε?
Believe it or not, it is actually in L&S, here:
http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.53:9:95.LSJ
In the alphabet waw comes after epsilon. But L&S ignore it for the purposes of lemmatisation.
In the Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (ed. by F. Montanari, behind a paywall/subscription only), you can directly type/choose ϝ into the search field:
There's also a very handy iOS app of the above-mentioned dictionary (in Italian only though) https://www.loescher.it/gi#4 - I use it quite a lot.
