Acrophonic


the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the word the logogram represented, as, in semitic writing, the use of a picture of a shepherd’s crook to represent the sound (l), the first sound of lamed, the hebrew word for a shepherd’s crook.
the use of a word as the name of the alphabetical symbol representing the initial sound of that word.

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