ϩⲏⲙ
Coptic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Demotic s-ḥmt (“woman”), from Egyptian zt-ḥmt (“woman”), from
(zt, “woman”) +
(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 distinguish between them. By surface analysis, ⲥⲁ (sa) + ϩⲓⲙⲉ (hime).
References
- Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 385
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 173–174
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