нъ

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See also: нь, њ, and -нь

Crimean Tatar

Letter

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

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

See also

(Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Гъ гъ, Д д, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Й й, К к, Къ къ, Л л, М м, Н н, Нъ нъ, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Дж дж, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

нѫ (nǫ)

Etymology

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

Conjunction

нъ • (nŭ)

but

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

но (no)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnʊ/→/ˈnʊ/→/ˈnɔ/

(ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈnʊ/
(ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈnʊ/
(ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ/

Hyphenation: нъ

Conjunction

нъ (nŭ)

but
- 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎, page 2:
  нъ пораꙁоумѣи чьто гл҃ють книгꙑ и словеса та·
  nŭ 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), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 477

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