< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nu; akin to Proto-Slavic *nyně (“now”). Parallel to Proto-Slavic *nu (“well, fine then”).
Probably originally an adverb, reformed into a conjunction similarly to Sanskrit नु (nu, “now then”) (typically meaning now, at once).
Conjunction
*nъ[1][2]
- but, however
- Synonyms: *a le, *a li (West Slavic, Western South Slavic)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: нъ (nŭ), но (no)
- Old Ruthenian: но (no)
- Rusyn: но (no)
- Ukrainian: но (no)
- Russian: но (no) (see there for further descendants)
- Old Ruthenian: но (no)
- Old East Slavic: нъ (nŭ), но (no)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic: нъ (nŭ)
- Glagolitic: ⱀⱏ (nŭ)
- Bulgarian: нъ (nǎ) (archaic), но (no)
- Macedonian: но (no)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: но
- Latin: no
- Old Church Slavonic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 50
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nu”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 26 (*novoukъ(jь) – *obgorditi), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 30
- Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “нъ¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 712
- Georgiev V. I., Duridanov I., editor (1995), “но³”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 669
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 360: “conj. ‘but’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “nъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “but (PR 146)”