This is great, congratulations! Do you happen to discuss similar Coptic texts, especially farmer’s almanacs?
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This is great, congratulations! Do you happen to discuss similar Coptic texts, especially farmer’s almanacs?
Is the ⲕ vs ⲭ significant here or are they variants with ⲭ motivated by ϩ?
That's a nice suggestion. If ϩⲁⲗ(ⲗ)ⲟⲩⲥ was a borrowing from Greek > Egyptian, it would have had to be a very early to change its form so much (like ϩⲁⲩϭⲁⲗ 'anchor' < ἄγκυρα).
Thanks. Yeah, I agree -- I just wonder what the Egyptian derivation is.
It's an interesting word since as far as I know ϩⲁⲗ(ⲗ)ⲟⲩⲥ doesn't have a known Egyptian antecedent and هلّوس/هلّوش isn't used in any other dialect of Arabic or Semitic language. The /u/ vowel suggests non-Egyptian origin but maybe it's related to words for moth, fly, etc. Do you have any ideas?
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Screenshot from Vsauce short showing how to say hello in a list of dead languages, including Coptic (Taiemouti)
Vsauce with a handy tool which tells you how to say hello in Coptic (ⲧⲁⲓⲉ̀ⲙⲟⲩϯ actually means vb. to greet or n. greeting) and other dead languages
There are similar passages in the Dormition of Mary (de Lagarde, Aegyptiaca, 1883: §15), Death of Joseph (ibid: §23), and the Martyrdom of Epime (Balestri & Hyvernat, Acta Martyrum I, 1908: 139). There are probably more examples in Acta Martyrum volumes.
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Looks intriguing but I’m not qualified to comment if these could all be related.
That’s quite the journey
There are many examples like this, such as the word for oasis, where a loan from Coptic to Egyptian Arabic is assumed, but would be better explained as a cognate in my opinion.
I'm sceptical since the same word occurs in multiple Arabic dialects with the meaning quail -- Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, and Classical (www.livingarabic.com/en/search?q=...). I think this favours a cognate rather than loanword but I'm interested on your view on this.
Are you suggesting it was loaned into Egyptian Arabic from Coptic or that the Egyptian/Coptic and Arabic words are cognates?
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NEW: Read in Coptic: The Tower of Babel
Read the story of The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), which might be titled ⲡⲓⲡⲩⲣⲅⲟⲥ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉⲃⲁⲃⲩⲗⲟⲛ, in Coptic with translation, grammatical notes and discussion.
Maybe συν θεώ for the right-side, top
I believe Joachim Quack is working on a state of the art Demotic grammar
Nubian-Coptic ostracan
Nubian Coptic
ⲁⲡⲉⲛⲧⲓ ⲃⲩⲛⲉ "date"
/apenti/
ⲉⲣⲡⲉⲕⲉ ⲏⲣⲡ "wine"
/erpeke/
ⲁⲥⲕⲟⲩ ⲡⲟⲉⲓⲕ "bread"
/asku/
ⲉ̄ⲧⲧⲱ ⲙⲟⲟⲩ "water"
/ettō/
* Database of Medieval Nubian Texts (DBMNT)
Text 1148
www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/texts/1148/
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Just need one for Demotic now
Sure, done
I think this is the end of the sections
Hope that helps. If you give me your email address I can send you a PDF
Which page(s)?
