ѧ

See also: Ѧ and -ѧ

Translingual

Letter

ѧ (lowercase, uppercase Ѧ)

1. The thirty-seventh letter (or thirty-fifth by some counts) of the Early Cyrillic alphabet. It had a numerical value of 900. Its name is Little Yus (ѧсъ малъі, Little Jus) and it represents the Common Slavonic nasalized front vowel ę (/ɛ̃/). It is preceded by Ѥ and followed by Ѫ.

See also

• Ѫ (Big Yus)
• Wikipedia article on the Early Cyrillic alphabet

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Old Church Slavonic

Pronoun

ѧ • (ę)

1. accusative plural of и (i)

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Old Novgorodian

Alternative forms

• ѧꙁо (jęzo)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun

ѧ • (ję)

1. I

References

• “199 (letter no. )”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus]‎^[1][2] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024
• “531 (letter no. )”, in Древнерусские берестяные грамоты [Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus]‎^[3][4] (in Russian), http://gramoty.ru, 2007–2024