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A mark of honour over a short form.
Also known as: Armenian abbreviation mark, Honour mark
The Armenian mark showing that the word beneath it has been abbreviated.
Marks the word beneath it as abbreviated.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Its name means 'honour', and like the Slavonic titlo it was used above all for sacred names — two scripts that borrowed the convention from Greek and both attached reverence to it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A curved or wavy stroke drawn above the retained letters of the shortened word.
Both mark a word as contracted and both were used above all for sacred names.