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A wave over a shortened sacred word.
Also known as: Slavonic abbreviation mark
The Church Slavonic mark showing that the word beneath it has been abbreviated by omitting letters.
Marks the word beneath it as contracted, with interior letters omitted.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Reserved above all for nomina sacra — the words for God, Jesus, Spirit and their relatives — so the mark signals reverence as much as brevity, and abbreviating such a word is the respectful form rather than a shortcut.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Inherited from Greek manuscript practice along with the alphabet, where the same convention marked the same class of words.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A horizontal wavy or straight stroke drawn above the retained letters, sometimes rising into a small hook at one end.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.