Ot ( ; italics: ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. Though it originated as a ligature of the letters Omega ( ) and Te ( ), it functions as a discrete letter of the alphabet, placed between and .Note that Ivan Fedorov’s alphabet does not include (though it does include ). This is because it does include , which was considered orthographically equivalent; one may compare the alphabet from Spiridon Sobol’s abecedarium of 1631, which has where Ivan Fedorov has . This can be seen in the first printed Cyrillic abecedarium (illustrated), and continues in modern usage.Иеромонах Алипий, Грамматика церковно-славянского языка, Saint Petersburg, 1997, p. 17
Ot is used in Church Slavonic to represent the preposition 'from' and prefix . It does not stand for this sequence of letters in any other context, nor can the sequence be substituted for it where it does occur. It is used with a similar purpose in mediaeval manuscripts of other Slavonic languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet. In printed books is often used in preference to for the numeral 800.
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