
Coptic Etymological Dictionary
Jaroslav Cerny(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 31. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
414 pages
978-1-108-01399-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 Cerny (1898-1970), Professor of Egyptology at Oxford, the Dictionary was brought through to publication by colleagues after his death.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
669 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-01399-4 (9781108013994)
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Jaroslav Cerny
Coptic Etymological Dictionary
Book
07/1976
Cambridge University Press
€142.37
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Content
Publishers' note; Preface; List of abbreviations; Coptic etymological dictionary; Appendix; Indexes.