ⲥϩⲓⲙⲓ

Coptic

Alternative forms
A woman from Saqqara, Egypt.

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 clarify.

Noun

ⲥϩⲓⲙⲓ (shimi) f (plural ϩⲓⲟⲙⲓ or ϩⲓⲁⲙⲓ)

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

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
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