Coptic Etymological Dictionary
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
ISBN-10
1108013996
ISBN-13
9781108013994
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2010
Print length
414 Pages
Weight
630 grams
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22.70 x 15.40 x 2.60 cms
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Historical & comparative linguisticsHistorical and comparative linguistics
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This dictionary lists about 2,000 Coptic words whose etymology has been established from ancient Egyptian and Greek sources, covering two-thirds of the known Coptic vocabulary and complementing W. E. Crum's 1939 Coptic Dictionary, still the standard in the field.
Coptic was the language spoken in Egypt from late ancient times to the seventeenth century, when it was overtaken by Arabic as the national language. Derived from ancient Egyptian, the language of the hieroglyphs, it was written in an adapted form of Greek script. This dictionary lists about 2,000 Coptic words whose etymology has been established from ancient Egyptian and Greek sources, covering two-thirds of the known Coptic vocabulary and complementing W. E. Crum's 1939 Coptic Dictionary, still the standard in the field. The Egyptian forms are quoted in hieroglyphic and/or demotic forms. An appendix lists the etymologies of Coptic place-names. The final work of Czech Egyptologist Jaroslav Cerný (1898–1970), Professor of Egyptology at Oxford, the Dictionary was brought through to publication by colleagues after his death.
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