Where does “ⲙⲉⲧ-” come from?
ⲙⲉⲧ- (Coptic) comes from Demotic mt, from Egyptian mdt, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.
Ancestry of “ⲙⲉⲧ-”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Demotic | mt | speech, matter |
| 2 | Egyptian | mdt | word; a speech; the text of a command |
| 3 | Egyptian | -t | Used to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An... |
| 4 | Proto-Afro-Asiatic | -t | — |
Words derived from “ⲙⲉⲧ-”