ⲙⲟⲩⲓ
Coptic edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Demotic mꜣj (“lion”), from Egyptian mꜣj (“lion”),
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Noun edit
ⲙⲟⲩⲓ • (moui) m (plural ⲙⲱⲟⲩⲓ (mōoui))
- (Bohairic, Sahidic) lion
- Walter Till, Koptische Heiligen- und Martyrerlegenden. Texte, Übersetzungen und Indices herausgeben und bearbeitet, book I, in Orientalia Christiana Analecta, issue 102, Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum (1935), 4, lines 18.19.
- ⲁⲡⲙⲟⲩⲓ ⲟⲩⲱϣⲧ ⲛⲁϥ ⲁϥⲡⲱⲧ ⲉⲡⲉϥⲙⲁ
- apmoui ouōšt naf afpōt epefma
- The lion saluted him and returned to his spot.
- Walter Till, Koptische Heiligen- und Martyrerlegenden. Texte, Übersetzungen und Indices herausgeben und bearbeitet, book I, in Orientalia Christiana Analecta, issue 102, Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum (1935), 4, lines 18.19.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Demotic mꜣy (“island”), from Egyptian mꜣwt (“new land (that emerged from the Nile)”), most likely abbreviated from *jw nj mꜣwt, literally “island of newness”.
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ⲙⲟⲩⲓ • (moui) f