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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nu; akin to Proto-Slavic *nyně (“now”). Parallel to Proto-Slavic *nu (“well, fine then”).

Probably originally an adverb, reformed into a conjunction similarly to Sanskrit नु (nu, “now then”) (typically meaning now, at once).

Conjunction

*nъ[1][2]

  1. but, however
    Synonyms: *a le, *a li (West Slavic, Western South Slavic)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: нъ (nŭ), но (no)
      • Old Ruthenian: но (no)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: но (no)
        • Ukrainian: но (no)
      • Russian: но (no) (see there for further descendants)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: нъ (nŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⱀⱏ (nŭ)
    • Bulgarian: нъ (nǎ) (archaic), но (no)
    • Macedonian: но (no)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: но
      Latin script: no

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 50
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nu”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 30
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “нъ¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 712
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “но³”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 669

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 360: “conj. ‘but’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “nъ”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “but (PR 146)”
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