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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is great, congratulations! Do you happen to discuss similar Coptic texts, especially farmer’s almanacs?

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Is the ⲕ vs ⲭ significant here or are they variants with ⲭ motivated by ϩ?

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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).

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Thanks. Yeah, I agree -- I just wonder what the Egyptian derivation is.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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

Screenshot from Vsauce short showing how to say hello in a list of dead languages, including Coptic (Taiemouti)

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

NEW: Egypt By Three (1953) – Coptic church in film Discover the 1953 film "Egypt by Three," an American movie shot in the Church of St. Mercurius (ʾAbū Sayfayn) in Old Cairo.

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Egypt By Three (1953) - Coptic church in film • The Coptist

Discover the 1953 film "Egypt by Three," an American movie shot in the Church of St. Mercurius (ʾAbū Sayfayn) in Old Cairo.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Looks intriguing but I’m not qualified to comment if these could all be related.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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.

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The Living Arabic Project - Classical Arabic and dialects

The Living Arabic Project - Online dictionaries and mobile apps for Classical Arabic and dialects.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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.

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Read in Coptic: The Tower of Babel • The Coptist

Read Genesis 11:1-9 in Coptic, featuring the story of The Tower of Babel (ⲡⲓⲡⲩⲣⲅⲟⲥ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉⲃⲁⲃⲩⲗⲱⲛ), including an English translation and notes.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Maybe συν θεώ for the right-side, top

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I believe Joachim Quack is working on a state of the art Demotic grammar

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ⲉⲓⲕⲟⲛ @touskonkouda.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The Coptist: Digitised Bibliography of Crum’s “List of Abbreviations” A new resource for users of Crum’s A Coptic Dictionary - a digitised compendium of the works listed in his “List of Abbreviations” with links to digitised versions of the editions Crum consulted. www.coptist.com/2025/07/30/d...

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Digitised bibliography of Crum's "List of Abbreviations" • The Coptist

A digitised version of Walter E. Crum's "List of Abbreviations" for his Coptic Dictionary (1939) with links to the original sources he cites.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hope that helps. If you give me your email address I can send you a PDF

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Probably not since it was a palatalised velar stop in southern varieties of Coptic but an aspirated affricate or maybe palatal stop in Bohairic in the Delta

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Thanks! How to ask someone's name and how to respond in idiomatic Coptic is the topic of the next post I'm writing. You're a step ahead

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The Coptist: How to talk about age in Coptic Do you know how to ask “How old are you?” and respond with “I am X years old” in natural, idiomatic Coptic? In this post, we’ll find out with the help of examples from literature. We’ll also talk about the grammar behind these expressions.

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How to talk about age in Coptic • The Coptist

We discuss how to ask "How old are you?" and reply "I am X years old" in idiomatic Coptic, plus grammar and illustrations from literature.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

There it is, finally - #12, in which I discuss how one reconstructs the pronunciations of dead languages! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnDM...

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Reconstructing the pronunciations of dead languages - Ola Wikander's Banal Yet Awesome #12

YouTube video by Ola Wikander – [Baalcycle]

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This Coptic word Sah. ⲧⲛ︤ϩ︥ and Boh. ⲧⲉⲛϩ 'wing (of flying creature)' has a nice doublet in Sah. ϫⲛⲁϩ and Boh. ϭⲛⲁϩ 'forearm' with preserved affricate (or palatal).

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is a good place to go: Behnstedt, Peter, and Manfred Woidich, 'The formation of the Egyptian Arabic dialect area', in Clive Holes (ed.), Arabic Historical Dialectology: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches, Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics (Oxford, 2018)

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

ⲧⲣⲟⲫⲁⲩⲉ: a rare example of a Greek-origin word (sg. ⲧⲣⲟⲫⲏ < τροφή) in Coptic taking the Egyptian morphological plural ending (-ⲁⲩⲉ) in the plural; cf. Sah. sg. ⲯⲩⲭⲏ (< ψυχή) and pl. ⲯⲩⲭⲟⲟⲩⲉ.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Body-related vocab in Coptic (Sah) from a body-focused section of the Apocryphon of John (NH II 15,5-11), for the lexically curious:

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Of these, it seems that (Bohairic) ϩⲱⲓⲣⲓ ‘faeces’ and ⲁⲛⲑⲁϣ ‘sneeze’ are cognates or Semitic loans. I wonder if Boh. ϫⲟⲕⲥⲓ and Sah. (ⲥⲁⲣ)ϭⲁⲧⲥⲉ ‘fart’ could also be related.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Personally, I think Černý is right on this one

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

NEW from The Coptic: Calming the Storm is a well-known story recorded in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In Coptic, it is called ⲡⲓϫⲓⲛⲉⲣⲉ̀ⲡⲓⲧⲓⲙⲁⲛ ⲛ̀ⲛⲓⲑⲏⲟⲩ ⲛⲉⲙⲫⲓⲟⲙ “The Rebuking of the Winds and the Sea”. Here is the Bohairic text from Matthew 8:23-27 with translation and notes.

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Read in Coptic: Calming the storm • The Coptist

Read in Coptic from Matthew 8:23–27, featuring the story of Jesus Calming the Storm. Includes an English translation and notes.

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I wondered that. It’s in the right position numerically, but the Arabic name doesn’t seem to match?

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Does anyone know what the (presumably Greek) character at the bottom right corner of this leaf is? Or read the back-to-front Arabic label just above it?

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Do you know what the character at the very bottom right is?

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thanks. I thought about this but wasn’t convinced because, as far as I know, the -f/-s ending is a feature of derived nouns, which doesn’t make sense for a loanword

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ⲁⲙⲃⲣⲟⲥⲓⲟⲥ 𓏞 @pisakho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I wondered whether the donor language had an affricate, or at least a palatalised dental stop, at the end, which might explain the Bohairic form ⲃⲉⲣⲉϭⲱⲟⲩⲧⲥ.

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