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- noun
palochka (the name of this letter in English) - noun The fifty-third letter of the
Kabardian Cyrillic alphabet. It also provides the first or second component in a number of Kabardiandigraphs andtrigraphs . Its Kabardian name is ’ə and it represents aglottal stop . It is preceded byя and followed by the digraph Ӏу. Example: ищӀэн (jəɕ’án, “he knew it”). - noun In the
Avar Cyrillic alphabet, it is not an independent letter, but is combined with various consonants, such as гӀ, кӀ, лӀ, тӀ, хӀ, цӀ, чӀ (pronouncedʕ , kʼ, tɬʼ, tʼ,ħ , ʦʼ, and ʧʼ). - noun The
palochka is also found in theCyrillic alphabets ofAbaza ,Adyghe ,Chechen ,Dargwa ,Ingush ,Lak ,Lezgi , andTabasaran .
Etymologies
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From the Roman numeral I that was furnished on most Russian manual typewriters. This letter also did duty for the numeral 1.
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