PHONETIC CHARACTER. The (reeks bad two characters to represent the short and the long sound of our c in- let and they. The short one. e, was called epsilon: the long one, n. was designated as eta. in Latin also there were both a short and a long c, just as there were in primi tive Indo-Germanie. in Sanskrit the sound of c was long, lint it was shortened under certain circumstances in Pilli and in the vernaculars. 'Historically, the Indo-Germanic short e becomes (1 in Sanskrit, e in Greek and Latin. as in Idg. *b/u'r(5, '1 bear.' Skt. bharanif, Gk. Olga), Lat. fem. The original long becomes Skt. ii. (k. n, Lat. thus, ldg. 'fill.' Skt. poi-tn. 'full.'1;k. ),-X4-png, Lit. p/c-nus. In English, the single char actor e is used to represent. a variety of sounds— get, he, her, there, and the like—and its em ployment to indicate that the preceding vowel is long, as in from AS. stein, is a de vice inherited from an earlier period of mis spelling in the language. The frequency of e in English is largely due historically to its be ing the indiscriminate or indefinite vowel into which the final endings u, o, u of the Anglo Saxon period were weakened. The case in Ger
man is somewhat similar. in Romance words also the mute c usually takes the place of Greek or Latin final syllables—e.g... muse, Lat. musa; bile, Lat. cone, Lat. coitus.
As A SY M BM.. E in music is the third tone in the natural scale of C: in the treble clef it is written on the first line or fourth space. and in the third space or the first added line below in the bass clef. As an abbreviation E. stands for East.
EA-BANI, 3'3-bii'n& A character in the Babylonian lzdubar legends, represented as half man, half bull. Aided by his prowess and strength, lzdubar slays Khumbstba the Elamite, who has usurped the throne of Ereeh. But lzdn bar has scorned the love of the goddess Ishtar, who in revenge inflicts leprosy upon him. and puts Ea-bani to death. lie is brought back to life by the prayers and intercession of lzdubar. Fee CIIT:A MESH.