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Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented…Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
Meaning
1 sensesEither of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
Either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
Origin
Borrowed from Russian ер (jer, “ъ”) and ерь (jerʹ, “ь”).Borrowed from Russian ер (jer, “ъ”) and ерь (jerʹ, “ь”).
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