Translingual

Letter

Ѧ ‎(uppercase, lowercase ѧ)

1. The thirty-seventh letter (or thirty-fifth by some counts) of the Early Cyrillic alphabet.

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

Old Novgorodian

Alternative forms

• ѧꙁо ‎(ęzo)

Etymology

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

Pronoun

ѧ ‎(ę)

1. I

References

• J. Schaeken et al. Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus: Contents and Contexts (INTAS-Project Ref. Nr. 03-51-3867), document № 199.
• J. Schaeken et al. Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus: Contents and Contexts (INTAS-Project Ref. Nr. 03-51-3867), document № 531.