ϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ

Coptic
India

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Demotic hntw, from Egyptian hndwꜣy. Compare Persian هند‎ (hend), Hebrew הודו‎ (hoddū), Aramaic ܗܢܕܘ‎ (hendu).

Adjective

ϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ • (hentou) ?

  1. (Bohairic, Sahidic) Indian

Proper noun

ⲡⲓϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ • (pihentou) m

  1. (Bohairic, Sahidic) India (a country)

References
  • Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 305
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 289
  • Kircher, Athanasius (1643) Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta, Romae: Hermann Scheus apud Ludouicum Grignanum
  • Isḥāḳ, Emile Māher. 1975. "The phonetics and phonology of the Boḥairic dialect of Coptic and the Survival of Coptic Word in the Colloquial and Classical Arabic of Egypt and of Coptic Grammatical Constructions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic". University of Oxford, p.167
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