Modern Egyptian house
From
Demotic (ꜥ.wy,
“house”), from Late Period
Egyptian (ꜥ,
“house”), from earlier
Egyptian (ꜥt,
“room”) (or else a formation from the same root). Vycichl notes that the plural form
ⲏⲟⲩ (ēou) is certainly an innovation rather than inherited.
ⲏⲓ • (ēi) m (plural ⲏⲟⲩ (ēou) or (A, B, F) ⲏⲩ (ēu)) (Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Fayyumic, Old Coptic)
- house
- household, family
ⲏⲓ • (ēi) m (plural ⲏⲓ (ēi))
- (Sahidic, Bohairic) pair, couple
ⲏⲓ • (ēi)
- (Old Coptic) O!
- Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 66
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 41–42
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, pages 52–53