ⲙⲱⲓⲧ

Coptic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Demotic Egyptian mjt, from Late Egyptian

(mjt, “road”), from Egyptian

(mṯn, “way, road, path”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Old Bohairic) /moːi̯t/
  • IPA(key): (Late Bohairic) /mui̯t/
  • IPA(key): (Greco-Bohairic) /ˈmo.it/

Noun

ⲙⲱⲓⲧ • (mōit) m (plural ⲙⲓⲧⲱⲟⲩⲓ (mitōoui))

  1. (Bohairic) road, path, way
    Synonyms: ϧⲓⲣ (xir), ϣⲑⲉϩ (štheh)

Derived terms

References

  • Crum, Walter E. (1939), A Coptic Dictionary‎[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 188a
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976), Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 92
  • TLA lemma no. C2072 (ⲙⲱⲓⲧ), in: Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), [2]
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