ѿ

See also: о, О, ӧ, о-, о., -о, -о-, and ѡ

ѿ U+047F, ѿ CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER OT ← Ѿ [U+047E] Cyrillic Ҁ → [U+0480]

Translingual

Etymology

From the combination of the Cyrillic letters ѡ and т.

Letter

ѿ (lower case, upper case Ѿ)

1. A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called ot or Old Church Slavonic отъ (otŭ).

Usage notes

• The letter stood for the preposition ѿ (ōtŭ) and the prefix ѿ- (ōtŭ-). In all other cases, the sound sequence ot was written as от.

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Old Church Slavonic

Letter

ѿ • (ōtŭ) (lower case, upper case Ѿ)

1. A letter of the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, called отъ (otŭ) and written in the Old Cyrillic script.

Preposition

ѿ • (ōtŭ)

1. alternative form of отъ (otŭ)

See also

• (Old Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е (Є є), Ж ж, Ѕ ѕ (Ꙃ ꙃ), З з (Ꙁ ꙁ), И и, І і (Ї ї), Ꙉ ꙉ, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, Оу оу (Ꙋ ꙋ), Ф ф, Х х, Ѡ ѡ (Ѿ ѿ), Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ꙑ ꙑ, Ь ь, Ѣ ѣ, Ꙗ ꙗ, Ѥ ѥ, Ю ю, Ѫ ѫ, Ѭ ѭ, Ѧ ѧ (Ꙙ ꙙ), Ѩ ѩ (Ꙝ ꙝ), Ѯ ѯ, Ѱ ѱ, Ѳ ѳ, Ѵ ѵ, Ҁ ҁ

Old East Slavic

Preposition

ѿ (ōtŭ)

1. alternative spelling of отъ (otŭ)

Old Novgorodian

Pronunciation

• (9th–11th century CE) IPA^(key): /ɔːtʊ̆/
• (13th–15th century CE) IPA^(key): /ɔːt/

Etymology 1

Letter

ѿ • (ōtŭ) (lower case, upper case Ѿ)

1. A letter of the Old Novgorodian alphabet, written in the Old Cyrillic script.

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *étider.

Proto-Balto-Slavic *ati

Proto-Slavic *otъ

Old Novgorodian ѿ

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *otъ.

Preposition

ѿ • (ōtŭ)

1. alternative form of отъ (otŭ, “from”) [with genitive]
   • c. 1025‒1050, Schaeken, Jos (2019), Voices on Birchbark (SSGL; 43)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, transl., Берестяная грамота № 246 [Birchbark letter no. 246]‎^[2], Novgorod:

     ѿ жировита къ стоѧнови …

     ōtŭ žirovita kŭ stojęnovi …

     From Žirovit to Stojan.

   • c. 1050‒1075, Kovalev, Roman K., transl., Берестяная грамота № 613 [Birchbark letter no. 613]‎^[3], Novgorod:

     грамота ѿ вонѣга къ с[т]ав[ъро] …

     gramota ōtŭ voněga kŭ s[t]av[ŭro] …

     Letter from V(o)neg to Stavro.

   • c. 1200‒1220, Берестяная грамота № 531 [Birchbark letter no. 531]‎^[4], Novgorod:

     + ѿ ане покло ко климѧте …

     + ōtŭ ane poklo ko klimęte …

     Greetings from Anna to Klimyata.

Further reading

• “отъ”, in Birchbark Letters Corpus, 2003–2026
• Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004), Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[5] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 774