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Coptic Etymological Dictionary

Jaroslav Černý

Preface

Oxford, 1970

J. Černý

Dictionary

    • ⲁ
        • ⲁ-, ⲁ⸗ (Crum 1 a), verbal prefix, from 𓁹 (Wb. 1, 112, 1–3); (Er. 36, 3), ꞽrꞽ, 'make, do'.
          • HStern, Kopt. Gr., 215, §374 [1880]; cf. Steindorff, Kopt. Gr., 1st ed., 126, §276, Anm. [1894]; DRevillout, Setna, 96 [1877]. The Egn. verbal form involved is 𓁹𓐰𓆑, ꞽr·f > L. Egn 𓁹𓇌𓆑 ꞽry·f (not 𓁹𓐰𓂋𓆑, ꞽrr·f or 𓇋𓀁𓁹𓐰𓂋𓆑, ꞽꞽr·f) and Dem. ꞽr·f.
          • HSpiegelberg in Rec. trav. 31, 156–7 [1909]; Griffith, 97 [1900]; cf. Wb. 1, 112, 3 [1926]; Till, Kopt. Gr. 159, §313 [1955]. NB. A rival theory (Edgerton in JAOS 55, 259 ff. [1935]) considers ⲁ⸗ < ϩⲁ⸗ < wꜣḥ; see ϩⲁ⸗, prefix of Perfect.
          • BAFⲁ⸗, prefix of IInd Present = L. Eg. 𓇋𓀁𓁹𓐰𓂋, ꞽꞽr· + Subj. + Inf. See under Fⲁⲁ⸗. The use of Qualitative in the IInd Present (and IInd Future) in which Till, Kopt. Gr. 154, §303, sees a decisive objection against deriving this ⲁ⸗ from ꞽrꞽ, must be secondary.
          • ⲁ- (Crum 1 a), prefix of Imperative = L. Egn. 𓇋𓀁, ꞽ-; Dem. or (Er. 15, 3), ꞽ-.
            • HChabas, Voyage, 82 [1866]; DBrugsch, Gr. dém. 150, §296 [1855]; cf. Edgerton, Griffith Studies, 63 [1932].
          • ⲁ- (Crum 1 a), adverb of indefiniteness, 'about' = 𓂝𓐰𓏺 (Wb. 1, 157, 14 ff.), 'arm, district'.
            • Spiegelberg, ZÄS 51, 123 [1913]; but see Dévaud, Muséon 36, 85 [1923].
          • Fⲁⲁ⸗ (not in Crum), prefix of IInd Perfect = L. Egn. 𓇋𓀁𓁹𓐰𓂋, ꞽꞽr· + Subj. + Inf.
            • Griffith, Ryl. III, 235, n. 2 [1909]; cf. Polotsky, Études de syntaxe copte, 71 and n. 1 [1944]. NB. In B, A and F the Eg. construction has resulted in the IInd Present ⲁ⸗, cf. Steindorff, Lehrbuch, 148, §321; Mallon-Malanine, Grammaire copte, 110, §327.