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Thesaurus: front yer

The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or ‘reduced’) front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.

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  1. n. The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or ‘reduced’) front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.