нъ

See also: нь, њ, and -нь

Crimean Tatar

Letter

нъ (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case Нъ)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Crimean Tatar alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

See also

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

  • нѫ ()

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nu.

Conjunction

нъ • ()

  1. but

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic нъ ().

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈnʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈnʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈnɔ/
  • Hyphenation: нъ

Conjunction

нъ ()

  1. but
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 2:
      нъ пораꙁоумѣи чьто гл҃ють книгꙑ и словеса та·
      porazuměi čĭto gl:jutĭ knigy i slovesa ta·
      but understand what the books say and the words, too

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: но (no)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: но (no)
    • Ukrainian: но (no)
  • Russian: но (no) (see there for further descendants)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “нъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 477
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