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soft sign

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English

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WOTD – 12 June 2021

Etymology

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Theuppercase andlowercaseversions of the soft sign.

Calque ofRussianмя́гкий знак(mjáxkij znak),[1] fromмя́гкий(mjáxkij,palatal, palatized, soft) +знак(znak,mark, sign).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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softsign (pluralsoft signs)

  1. TheCyrillicletterЬ/ь (transliterated inEnglish with anapostrophe () orprime ()), which inmodernlanguagesusing theCyrillic alphabetserves todenote asoft (palatized)consonant.
    Synonyms:front jer,front yer
    Antonym:hard sign

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Translations

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Cyrillic letter Ь/ь

References

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  1. ^soft sign,n.” under soft,adj.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required, Oxford:Oxford University Press, March 2021;soft sign,n.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

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