ⲏⲓ
Coptic
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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.
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Noun
editⲏⲓ • (ēi) m (plural ⲏⲟⲩ (ēou) or (A, B, F) ⲏⲩ (ēu)) (Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Fayyumic, Old Coptic)
Alternative forms
edit- ⲏⲉⲓ (ēei) — Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan
Etymology 2
editNoun
editⲏⲓ • (ēi) m (plural ⲏⲓ (ēi))
Etymology 3
editInterjection
editⲏⲓ • (ēi)
- (Old Coptic) O!
References
edit- 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