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Where does “ⲙⲛⲧⲉⲣⲟ” come from?

ⲙⲛⲧⲉⲣⲟ (Coptic) comes from Coptic ⲙⲛⲧ-, from Demotic mt, from Egyptian mdt, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.

ⲙⲛⲧⲉⲣⲟ (Coptic): kingdom, territory ruled by a king or queen;...

Definitions

  1. kingdom, territory ruled by a king or queen;...

Ancestry of “ⲙⲛⲧⲉⲣⲟ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Copticⲙⲛⲧ-—
2Demoticmtspeech, matter
3Egyptianmdtword; a speech; the text of a command
4Egyptian-tUsed to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An...
5Proto-Afro-Asiatic-t—
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