Sahidic
English
Alternative forms
- Saidic
Etymology
Calque of Arabic صَعِيدِي (ṣaʿīdī, “Upper Egyptian, Thebaic”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.[1]
Proper noun
Sahidic
- A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt.
Synonyms
- Thebaic
References
- Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 36
Anagrams
- Hasidic