Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

choiak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: choiak
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The fourth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the fourth and last month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Choiak has been in roughly December.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χοίακ (Khoíak), from Egyptian kꜣ-ḥr-kꜣ. Compare Coptic Ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ (Khoiak).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: Χοίακ, kꜣ-ḥr-kꜣ

Inflected Forms

Choeac (alternative) Khoiak (alternative) Choiach (alternative) Choïac (alternative) Choïak (alternative)

Questions

What does choiak mean?: The fourth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the fourth and last month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Choiak has been in roughly December.
Where does choiak come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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