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- Russian · calque ofмя́гкий знак
- English todaysoft sign
Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak), from мя́гкий (mjáxkij, “palatal, palatized, soft”) + знак (znak, “mark, sign”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
soft sign
Today it means: The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь (transliterated in English with an apostrophe (’) or prime (′)), which in modern languages using the Cyrillic alphabet serves to denote a soft (palatized) consonant. Full definition →
Russian мя́гкий знак