безъ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• без (bez), бес (bes)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bezъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic без (bez).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛzʊ/→/ˈbʲɛzʊ/→/ˈbʲɛːz/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛzʊ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɛzʊ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɛːz/

• IPA^(key): /bɛz/→/bʲɛz/→/bʲɛz/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /bɛz/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /bʲɛz/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /bʲɛz/

• Hyphenation: бе‧зъ

Preposition

безъ (bezŭ) (pre-cluster form безо, + genitive)

1. without

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: безъ (bez)
  • Belarusian: без (bjez)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: без (bez)
  • Ukrainian: без (bez)
• Russian: без (bez)

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “безъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 64

Russian

Preposition

безъ • (bez)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of без (bez).