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ⲥϩⲓⲙⲓ

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Coptic

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Alternative forms

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A woman from Saqqara, Egypt.

Etymology

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From Demotic s-ḥmt (woman), from Egyptian zt-ḥmt (woman), from
z
t B1
(zt, woman) +
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t
B1
(ḥmt, wife, woman), a compound that arose because the feminine ending -t in zt eventually became silent, making zt homophonous with z (man), so that it became necessary to add ḥmt to clarify.

Noun

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ⲥϩⲓⲙⲓ (shimif (plural ϩⲓⲟⲙⲓ (hiomi) or ϩⲓⲁⲙⲓ (hiami))

  1. (Bohairic, Fayyumic) woman
  2. (Bohairic, Fayyumic) wife
  3. (Bohairic, Fayyumic) female (animal)

References

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