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sahidic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

Syllables
sahidic
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt.

Etymology

Calque of Arabic صَعِيدِي (ṣaʕīdī, “Upper Egyptian, Thebaic”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Saidic (alternative)

Synonyms

Thebaic

Questions

What does sahidic mean?
A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt.
Where does sahidic come from?
Calque of Arabic صَعِيدِي (ṣaʕīdī, “Upper Egyptian, Thebaic”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.

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