Church Slavonic: Meaning of the Cyrillic letter names

[übermönch]

Before the revolutionary reforms the Azbuka letters all had a name (at least in Russian - what's the situation with Bg./Md./Srb.?), which, as it seems for some of them, had a meaning in the language they first were used in. I've tried to figure some of them out, could you help with the rest?

Az
Buki
Vedi
Glagol' -Speak?
Dobro -Good
Yest' -There is
Z'elo
Zhivite -Live
Zeml'ia -Earth
Izhe
Phita
I
Kako
L'iudi -People
Myslite -Think
Nash -Ours
Ksi
On
Pokoj -Rest
Rci
Slovo -Word
Tverdo -Hard
Uk
Fert
Her'
Psi
Omega
Ci
Cherv' -Worm
Sha
Jat'
Shcha
Jer
Jery
Jer'
Ju
Ja

The bold ones are, obviously, borrowed from Greek.

 

[werrr]

Before the revolutionary reforms the Azbuka letters all had a name (at least in Russian - what's the situation with Bg./Md./Srb.?),...

I think they still have .

...which, as it seems for some of them, had a meaning in the language they first were used in. I've tried to figure some of them out, could you help with the rest?

Almost all are of old Slavic origin (Church Slavonic?). The names were used for the early Cyrillic alphabet and also for the Glagolitic alphabet. The legend says there was a mnemotechnic poem (song?) made of these names.

My guess (for Old Church Slavonic):
ază - I
buky - letter, writing
vědě - see, know
glagoli - say, speak (sound, resonate) ... today's Czech word "hlahol" means "hubbub", "clangour" (der Hall, der Schall, der Klang)
dobro - good
est' - be
živěte - live
dzělo - very
zeml'ja - earth, land
iže - who, which
i - and, even (or some form of "he")
kako - how, how is it that
ljidije - people
myslite - think
naš' - our, of us
onă - that
pokoji - rest, peace
r'cy - say, tell
slovo - word
tvr'do - hard
otă - by, from, of
červ' - worm (subsequently "red")

 

[Anatoli]

Before the revolutionary reforms the Azbuka letters all had a name (at least in Russian - what's the situation with Bg./Md./Srb.?), which, as it seems for some of them, had a meaning in the language they first were used in. I've tried to figure some of them out, could you help with the rest?
Phita
Ksi
Psi
Omega

The bold ones are, obviously, borrowed from Greek.

übermönch, you are correct, they are all of Greek origin and none of them survived in the current cyrillic alphabet. Maybe Greeks can help explain the meaning?

 

[papillon]

Here's one:
Omega -- big "O", (O-mega) as opposed to another Greek letter
Omicron --small /short "O".