Where does “ⲙⲟⲩⲉ” come from?
ⲙⲟⲩⲉ (Coptic) comes from Demotic mꜣy, from Egyptian mꜣwt, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.
ⲙⲟⲩⲉ (Coptic): island
Ancestry of “ⲙⲟⲩⲉ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Demotic | mꜣy | island |
| 2 | Egyptian | mꜣwt | a new thing, something new |
| 3 | Egyptian | -t | Used to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An... |
| 4 | Proto-Afro-Asiatic | -t | — |