нъ

See also: нь, њ, and -нь

Crimean Tatar

Letter

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

1. 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)

1. 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)

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