Writing, part V

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

And the last letters of the alphabet, low-case.

Capital letters, I
Capital letters, II
Capital letters, III

Low-case letters, I



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Okey, these are the remaining letters. As before, I provide but one meaning for each word.

д1 - динамит, ода, бедро, объедки, дранка2 п - пэр, стропило, парашют, спрут р3 - проспект, шар, шуруп, арба, бардак с - постель, Успение, штос, шёрстка т - потолок, копыто, штаб, утлегарь у - мухобойка5, шут, курица, корона ф - офис, сфинкс, фтор, фура6 х - Хачатурян, соха, хрен, уха, пихта ц - центнер, кацавейка7, папарацци, ацтек ч - карточка, очи8, горячка, мачта ш9 - тишина, пешка, ишак, шина щ - щит, Торин Дубощит10, чаща, пища ъ - въезд, подъём, отъезд ы - пыл, сытость, штык, бык, кыш! ь - пьяница, колье, бельчонок, Сонька, пальто э - эра, Сэм, сэр, лэди/леди11, 12, аэростат ю - ювелир, плюш, рюши, изюм, мюсли я - ягдташ, моряк, пятница, пояс, стряпчий

dynamite, ode, thigh, left-overs, shingle peer (of the Parliament), rafter, parachute, octopus avenue, ball, screw, bullock-cart, chaos (closer to brothel) bed, Assumption, schtoss(?), fur ceiling, hoof, headquarters, outrigger fly-killer, joker, chicken, crown office, sphinx, fluorine, van Khachaturyan (composer), wooden plough, horse-radish, fish-soup, fir centner, short warm overcoat, paparazzi, aztec card, eyes, fever, mast silence, pawn, donkey, tire shield, Thorin Oakenshild, thicket, board entrance, mounting, departure heat, satiety, bayonet, ox, shoo! drunkard, necklace, squirrel cub(?), Son'ka (short from Sonya, Sophie), coat era, Sam, sir, lady, balloon jeweller, plush, ruche, raisins, muesli hawking bag, seafaring man, Friday, belt, ~official

¹ When I asked what I had omitted in my last post I meant I have forgotten to write examples with the letter "д". Nobody seemed to notice ;)
² - it's a type of roof material.
³ - it's possible to write this letter both ways, but I prefer the second (againg for the reasons of being better understood) notwithstanding I have mostly written it the first, more 'correct' way in the pictures.
⁴ - a card game, but I don't know how to play - they play it in classical literature.
⁵ - a thingy to kill flies with
⁶ - I had an auto in mind when I wrote it.
⁷ - women wore it in the XIXth century, some sort of a vest with fur. Sorry, couldn't find a picture. In everyday language it means a short and warm overcoat.
⁸ - old, now poetic for eyes
⁹ earlier it was obligatory to write a line above "т" and under "ш" - in order to distinguish between them. It is not now, but in words containing иш, ши, иши - I find it the best solution.
¹⁰ - one of the variants of translation, the other being a simple transliteration, Торин Оукеншильд. (yes, I love the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and adore comparing translations with the original).
¹¹ лэди is an oldish variant of the title, found in books up to mid XX century, леди is today's norm.
¹² it's difficult to come up with Russian words, so as you see I have written three originally English ones.
¹³ An old title for a "tzar's" official (don't ask what he was doing :) ). In the 18 century it was sort of a lawyer.


All letters like they are written in our writing guide in the first grade, in the "пропись"

via katierinka

And finally, this is how I pronounce the alphabet. (Pause after each line, and some letters like эф I do it differently on purpose).

а бэ вэ гэ дэ йэ йо
жэ зэ и й
ка эл эм эн
о пэ рэ сэ тэ у фэ
ха цэ чэ шэ ще
твёрдый знак ы мягкий знак
э йу йа

Comments

[nadha.livejournal.com]

Л - [эль]

and not only

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Л - [эль]
Й - [и краткое]
Р - [эр]
С - [эс]
Ф - [эф]

But as I mentioned before, I pronounce the alphabet this way, and as long as all the letters are in it, I don't think it matters much.

Okay. I will cut it, so that not to show the -not absolutely correct variant- on the friends list of the readers ;).

And not only :)

[salexey.livejournal.com]

Ш -[ша]
Щ -[ща]
:)

Re: And not only :)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Yep :)

Re: and not only

[stephan-nn.livejournal.com]

Э - "э оборотное"

[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

When writing out the alphabet, why do you write е as йе, but ё ю and я as йо йу and йа? Shouldn't it be йэ instead?

Also, why are ъ ы and ь referred to as твердый знак ы and мягкий знак instead of ер еры and ерь, respectively? Was this ever the case? If so, when did it change?

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

First question, I stay corrected, thank you.

Second, I am not sure, I am not much language history geek, but I guess it was around 1917-1918 when the the writing was reformed to the modern one.

[solaq.livejournal.com]

you're absolutely right. There're no letters like "ер", "еры", "ерь" in Russian.

[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

Anymore? Or ever? Because I understand this is not the case now.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Since 1917

Before, the alphabet run like this:

Аз, Буки, Веди, Глаголь, Добро, Есть, Живете, Земля, Иже, I, Како, Люди, Мыслете, Наш, Он, Покой, Рцы, Слово, Твердо, Ук, Фертъ, Херъ, Цы, Червь, Ша, Ща, Ер, Еры, Ерь, Ять, Э, Ю, Я, Фита, Ижица

(taken from the following article http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5735/1/intro_oo.html)

[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

Спасибо!

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

There is no difference in pronouncation between йэ and йе, because й can't be palatalized :) The letter е is just more common for russian language than э - э is't native russian letter, it was invebtd for such words as электричество (earlier it was written as електричество and maybe often mispronounced). There are still lots of foreign words in which е doesn't palatalize previous consonant (e.g. above-mentioned леди).

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Thank you - it is an interesting fact :)

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

Sorry, sorry! Л in леди _is_ palatalized. Then, энергия.

[giantantattack.livejournal.com]

Actually, there would be a difference in pronunciation. йэ would be [jɛ] (the same pronunciation as е) and йе would be [jːɛ] (a lengthened version). The only reason one cannot palatalize й is because it is already inherently palatal. Given that, the addition of any soft vowel simply creates a lengthening of the palatal approximant й before it. It's the same reason one wouldn't write йю or йя when describing how they pronounce ю and я. And, like you said, the only time nowadays when е does not palatalize the preceding consonant is in a foreign word, and I don't think, as a letter, е itself would be considered foreign.

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are right, the [j] as й in writing sounds longer than [j] as a part of vowel. For example, "Toyota" is written and pronounced in Russian as "Тойота" (an English transliteration) with long [j], though in Japanese it's pronounced as "Тоёта". But the longness of [j] doesn't depend on whether the next letter is e or э.