The Greeks also lacked the sound, so when they adopted the Phoenician letters they arbitrarily changed O's value to a vowel. (Thus there is no grounds for the belief that the form of the letter represents the shape of the mouth in pronouncing it.)
The letter also happens to be the easiest to draw, and the easiest to make with the mouth.
From the same source:
megas "great, large, vast, big, high, tall; mighty, important," from PIE root *meg- "great."
It is the loudest or longest sound you can make from a mountain top. It is likely the Greeks had plotted on reusing the O for that purpose. In oral tradition, any loud human sound came from a horn, circular, by hands and mouth or instrument, circular.
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