безъ

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bezъ. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic без (bez).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛzʊ//ˈbʲɛzʊ//ˈbʲɛːz/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbɛzʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛzʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛːz/

  • IPA(key): /bɛz//bʲɛz//bʲɛz/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /bɛz/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /bʲɛz/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /bʲɛz/

  • Hyphenation: бе‧зъ

Preposition

безъ (bezŭ) (pre-cluster form безо, + genitive)

  1. without

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: безъ (bez)
  • Russian: без (bez), бе́зо (bézo)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “безъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 64

Russian

Preposition

безъ • (bez)

  1. Pre-1918 spelling of без (bez).