The word-initial glottal fricative [h] in Greek, represented in literary texts by the so-called spiritus asper < ‘ > and in epigraphic texts by <H>, tended to be lost from the Greek dialects, affecting certain dialects earlier than others; this loss is known as psilosis (derived from the adjective psilós ‘bare, stripped’), the dialects showing this loss psilotic (Aspiration). Greek initial [h] is often the reflex of earlier …