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Where does “ⲙⲛⲧⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ” come from?

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

ⲙⲛⲧⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ (Coptic): monastery; monasticism, monkhood

Definitions

  1. monastery; monasticism, monkhood

Ancestry of “ⲙⲛⲧⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ”, 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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