Soft Sign - Name of The Letter

Name of The Letter

• Old Church Slavonic: ѥрь (yerĭ)—meaning of the word is unknown
• Church Slavonic: єрь (yer')
• Bulgarian: ер малък ('small yer'), whereas the hard sign ‹ъ› is named ер голям ('big yer')
• Russian: мягкий знак ('soft sign'), or (an archaic, mostly pre-1917 name) ерь
• Ukrainian: м’який знак ('soft sign')
• Belarusian: мяккі знак ('soft sign')
• Serbian (and all its variants): tanko jer / танко јер ('thin yer'), or simply jer/јер ('yer')—whereas the hard sign ‹ъ› is named debelo jer / дебело јер ('thick yer') or simply jor / јор ('yor')