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2-6 ʕθm in Arabic and other Semitic languages will be unpacked in details as follows: First, the Proto-Semitic *ʕ is the pronunciation of the letter name *ʿayn- ‘eye’ in Proto-Semitic which in turn is derived from the Proto-Afroasiatic *ʕayVn- ‘eye’ [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/%CA%95ayn- ]. This corresponds to Arabic <عين /ع>, Aramaic <𐡏>, and Hebrew <ע>; which has evolved out of the Phoenician <𐤏> through Proto-Sinaitic from the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph <𓁹> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin ]. The Phoenician letter <𐤏> inspired the Greek Ο, Latin O, and Cyrillic О The Proto-Semitic ‘theta’ *θ <ث> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B9%AE%C4%81%CA%BE ] had been reconstructed through Old South and Old North Arabian; and it is ultimately derived from Taw [t] <ت> *t. The ’diacritics‘ in Arabic is a recent development and the orthography of Arabic was akin to Syriac [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw#Arabic_t%C4%81%CA%BC ]. Taw, [t], was derived from the Proto-Canaanite through Proto-Sinaitic <+> which is ultimately derived from the Old Egyptian ‘mark’ <X>