<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 8 Sep 2010<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Coptic Etymological Dictionary<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 8 Sep 2010<br>From: reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject: Coptic Etymological Dictionary<br><br>Title: Coptic Etymological Dictionary <br>Series Title: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics <br><br>Publication Year: 2010 <br>Publisher: Cambridge University Press<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <a href="http://us.cambridge.org/">http://us.cambridge.org</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>Book URL: <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781108013994">http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781108013994</a> <br><br><br>Author: Jaroslav ?ernư<br><br>Paperback: ISBN: 9781108013994 Pages: 412 Price: U.K. £ 20.99<br><br><br>Abstract:<br><br>Coptic was the language spoken in Egypt from late ancient times to the<br>seventeenth century, when it was overtaken by Arabic as the national<br>language. Derived from ancient Egyptian, the language of the hieroglyphs,<br>it was written in an adapted form of Greek script. This dictionary lists<br>about 2,000 Coptic words whose etymology has been established from ancient<br>Egyptian and Greek sources, covering two-thirds of the known Coptic<br>vocabulary and complementing W. E. Crum's 1939 Coptic Dictionary, still the<br>standard in the field. The Egyptian forms are quoted in hieroglyphic and/or<br>demotic forms. An appendix lists the etymologies of Coptic place-names. The<br>final work of Czech Egyptologist Jaroslav ?ernư (1898-1970), Professor of<br>Egyptology at Oxford, the Dictionary was brought through to publication by<br>colleagues after his death. <br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 8 Sep 2010<br></div></body></html>