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