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нъ

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See also: нь, њ, and -нь

Crimean Tatar

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Letter

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

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

See also

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Old Church Slavonic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Conjunction

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нъ ()

  1. but

Old East Slavic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

  • Hyphenation: нъ

Conjunction

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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

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

References

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  • 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