En (Cyrillic) - History

History

The Cyrillic letter En was derived from the Greek letter Nu (Ν ν).

The name of En in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was нашь (našĭ), meaning "ours".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, En had a value of 50.

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