See also:

U+A657, ꙗ
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTIFIED A

[U+A656]
Cyrillic Extended-B
[U+A658]

Translingual

Letter

(upper case )

  1. A letter of the Old Cyrillic script.

Old Church Slavonic

Pronoun

• (ja)

  1. nominative singular feminine of и (i)

Declension

Old East Slavic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɑ//ˈja//ˈja/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈjɑ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈja/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈja/

Pronoun

(ja)

  1. alternative form of ꙗзъ (jazŭ, I)

Declension

Old Novgorodian

Etymology 1

Letter

• (ja) (lower case, upper case )

  1. A letter of the Old Novgorodian alphabet, written in the Old Cyrillic script.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jà, *(j)ãzъ. First attested in c. 1100‒1120. Cognate with Old East Slavic (ja), Old Ruthenian (ja), Russian я (ja), Old Polish ja.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

• (ja)

  1. first-person pronoun; I
Declension

Further reading

  • ꙗꙁъ”, in “Birchbark Letters Corpus”, in Russian National Corpus, https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2025
  • ”, in “Birchbark Letters Corpus”, in Russian National Corpus, https://ruscorpora.ru, 2003–2025
  • Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 820