оу
Translingual
editLetter
editоу (mixed case Оу, upper case ОУ)
- A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called uk or digraph uk.
Alternative forms
edit- ꙋ (monograph)
Gallery
edit-
Regular.
Old Church Slavonic
editAlternative forms
edit- ꙋ (u)
Etymology 1
editLetter
editоу • (u) (lower case, upper case Оу)
- A letter of the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, called оукъ (ukŭ), and written in the Old Cyrillic script.
See also
edit- (Old Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е (Є є), Ж ж, Ѕ ѕ (Ꙃ ꙃ), З з (Ꙁ ꙁ), И и, І і (Ї ї), Ꙉ ꙉ, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, Оу оу (Ꙋ ꙋ), Ф ф, Х х, Ѡ ѡ (Ѿ ѿ), Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ꙑ ꙑ, Ь ь, Ѣ ѣ, Ꙗ ꙗ, Ѥ ѥ, Ю ю, Ѫ ѫ, Ѭ ѭ, Ѧ ѧ (Ꙙ ꙙ), Ѩ ѩ (Ꙝ ꙝ), Ѯ ѯ, Ѱ ѱ, Ѳ ѳ, Ѵ ѵ, Ҁ ҁ
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Slavic *u.
Preposition
editоу • (u)
Old Novgorodian
editEtymology 1
editLetter
editоу • (u) (lower case, upper case Оу)
- A letter of the Old Novgorodian alphabet, written in the Old Cyrillic script.
- c. 1240‒1260, Onfim, Берестяная грамота № 201 [Birchbark letter no. 201][5], Novgorod:
- а б : в г : д е : ж ꙅ : ꙁ и : і к : л м : н о : п р : с т : у ѳ х ѿ : ц ч : ш щ : ъ ꙑ : ь ѣ : ꙋ ю : ѫ ѧ : …
- a b : v g : d e : ž dz : z i : i k : l m : n o : p r : s t : u θ x otŭ : ć ć : š ść : ŭ y : ĭ jě : u ju : ǫ ję : …
Etymology 2
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *u, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *au, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew.
Preposition
editоу • (u)
Further reading
edit- “оу”, in Берестяные грамоты – Национальный корпус русского языка [Birchbark Letters – Russian National Corpus], https://ruscorpora.ru/, 2003–2024
- Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect][10] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures, →ISBN, page 810
Russian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editо́у • (óu) n inan (indeclinable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
- ow, oh
Usage notes
editThis name is used in a context of the English language, whereas о is used in translingual contexts.
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual letters
- Translingual terms spelled with У
- Translingual terms spelled with О
- Cyrillic script characters
- Old Church Slavonic lemmas
- Old Church Slavonic letters
- Old Church Slavonic terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Old Church Slavonic terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Old Church Slavonic prepositions
- Old Novgorodian lemmas
- Old Novgorodian letters
- Old Novgorodian terms with quotations
- Old Novgorodian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Old Novgorodian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Old Novgorodian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Old Novgorodian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Old Novgorodian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Novgorodian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Novgorodian prepositions
- Russian 2-syllable words
- Russian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Russian lemmas
- Russian nouns
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