See also: нь, њ, and -нь

Crimean Tatar edit

Letter edit

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

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

See also edit

Old Church Slavonic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Conjunction edit

нъ ()

  1. but

Old East Slavic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Conjunction edit

нъ ()

  1. but
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], 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 edit

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

References edit

  • 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]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 477