ⲱⲓⲕ

Coptic

Alternative forms
An Ancient Egyptian loaf of bread.

Etymology
From Demotic ꜥq (“bread, income”), from Egyptian

 
(ꜥqw, “income, food, bread”).

Noun

ⲱⲓⲕ (ōik) m

  1. (Bohairic, countable) a loaf of bread
  2. (Bohairic, uncountable) bread

Derived terms

References
  • Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 254
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 120
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