Psi (Ѱ, ѱ; italics:
''Ѱ ѱ'') is a letter in the
early Cyrillic alphabet
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is a writing system that was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the late 9th century on the basis of the Greek alphabet for the Slavic people living ...
, derived from the
Greek
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letter
psi (Ψ, ψ). It represents the sound /ps/, as in English ''naps''. According to the school rules developed in the 16th and the 17th centuries, such as
Meletius Smotrytsky's grammar book, it was intended for use in words of Greek origin, but it was occasionally used for writing native words as well like Ukrainian (''psy'', “dogs”).
[Simovyč 1963, p 515a.] It was used especially in words relating to the
Eastern Orthodox
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Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
Church, as can be seen in its continuing use in
Church Slavonic.
Psi was eliminated from the
Russian
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orthography, along with
ksi
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omega
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, and the
yuses, in the
Civil Script
The Russian orthography has been reformed officially and unofficially by changing the Russian alphabet over the course of the history of the Russian language. Several important reforms happened in the 18th–20th centuries.
Early changes
...
of 1708 (
Peter the Great's ''Grazhdansky Shrift''), and it has also been dropped from other secular languages. It continues to be used in
Church Slavonic.
Computing codes
See also
*
Psi (disambiguation)
Psi, PSI or Ψ may refer to:
Alphabetic letters
* Psi (Greek) (Ψ, ψ), the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
* Psi (Cyrillic) (Ѱ, ѱ), letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, adopted from Greek
Arts and entertainment
* "Psi" as an abbreviatio ...
, for other meanings.
Notes
References
Cyrillic alphabet (Кириллица)at Omniglot
* Simovyč, V. and J.B. Rudnycky, “The History of Ukrainian Orthography”, in Kubijovyč, Volodymyr ed. (1963), ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopædia'', v 1. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. {{ISBN, 0-8020-3105-6.
Cyrillic letters