soft sign
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak),[1] from мя́гкий (mjáxkij, “palatal, palatized, soft”) + знак (znak, “mark, sign”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌsɒftˈsaɪn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌsɔftˈsaɪn/
- Rhymes: -aɪn
NounEdit
soft sign (plural soft signs)
- The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to denote a soft (palatized) consonant.
HypernymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Cyrillic letter Ь/ь
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ “soft sign, n.” under “soft, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “soft sign, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.