| 单词 | soft sign |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft sign soft sign n. [compare Russian mjagkij znak (1892 or earlier); compare sense 24a(b)] (in Russian and some other Slavonic languages) a character, printed ь, used chiefly to represent the palatalization of a preceding consonant or the preiotation of a subsequent vowel; cf. jer n.The soft sign is transliterated in English with a prime symbol or a single apostrophe. ΚΠ 1850 ‘Talvi’ Hist. View Lang. & Lit. Slavic Nations 18 The t' signifies the Yehr, or soft sign of the Russians in addition to the t. 1946 F. Lorimer Population Soviet Union 259 In the text proper, the soft sign and hard sign in transliterated Russian names are generally omitted. 2015 O. E. Kagan et al. Russian 394 The nominative forms of cardinal numerals are spelled with only one soft sign. < as lemmas |
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