ⲉⲃⲓⲏⲛ
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Coptic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Demotic
(ꜣbyn, “poor man”). Ultimately borrowed from Canaanite *ʾabyōn-,[1]
whence also Hebrew אֶבְיוֹן (ʾeḇyōn, “poor, needy”). Related to Ugaritic 𐎀𐎁𐎊𐎐 (ảbyn /ʾabyānu/, “poor, impoverished”).[2]
![A14](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Demotic-character-A14.png/15px-Demotic-character-A14.png)
![n-2](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Demotic-character-n-2.png/19px-Demotic-character-n-2.png)
![y](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Demotic-character-y.png/17px-Demotic-character-y.png)
![b](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Demotic-character-b.png/32px-Demotic-character-b.png)
![ꜣ](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Demotic-character-%EA%9C%A3.png/32px-Demotic-character-%EA%9C%A3.png)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ⲉⲃⲓⲏⲛ • (ebiēn) m or f
Adjective
[edit]ⲉⲃⲓⲏⲛ • (ebiēn)
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson-Wright, Aren M., Huehnergard, John (2021) “How to Kill a Dragon in Northwest Semitic: Three Linguistic Observations regarding Ugaritic ltn and Hebrew liwyātān”, in Vetus Testamentum, volume 72, number 1, Brill, : “Normally, the suffix *-ān becomes -ôn in Biblical Hebrew with the operation of the Canaanite shift (e.g., *ʔabyān- > ʔebyôn “poor”).”
- ^ Bordreuil, Pierre, Pardee, Dennis (2009) A Manual of Ugaritic, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 293: “ʾABYN adjective 'destitute, poor' /ʾabyānu/”
- Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago[1], volume ꜣ (02.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 18
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32
- Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 53
- “ꜣbjn (lemma ID d73)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[3], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 38
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