Assertion: letter | /r/HasProperty | originated in hieroglyph
Facets:
value: for an arm
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) in Egyptian, but was reassigned to /j/ (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound.