Rough breathing on ἕρξῃς

1. How do you mark rough breathing on a Greek keyboard?
2. What is rough breathing in Ancient Greek?
3. What is the sound made by the rough breathing mark?
4. What is smooth breathing in Greek?

How do you mark rough breathing on a Greek keyboard?

The dasia, which marks rough breathing, is romanized h . When it appears with a vowel or a diphthohg, the h precedes the romanized vowel or diphthong; when it appears with rho ('Ρ,'ρ), the h follows the romanized rho (Rh, rh).

What is rough breathing in Ancient Greek?

The rough breathing (Ancient Greek: δασὺ πνεῦμα, romanized: dasù pneûma; Latin spīritus asper)—'ἁ'—indicates a voiceless glottal fricative (/h/) before the vowel in Ancient Greek. In Greek grammar, this is known as aspiration. This is different from aspiration in phonetics, which applies to consonants, not vowels.

What is the sound made by the rough breathing mark?

Any word beginning with the letter "r" carries a rough breathing mark and is transliterated as "rh." The 'H' sound is produced by a more forceful escape of air at the beginning of sounding the word.

What is smooth breathing in Greek?

The smooth breathing (Ancient Greek: ψιλὸν πνεῦμα, romanized: psilòn pneûma; Greek: ψιλή psilí; Latin: spīritus lēnis) is a diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography. In Ancient Greek, it marks the absence of the voiceless glottal fricative /h/ from the beginning of a word.