Bohairic
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English
Etymology
Calque of Arabic بُحَيْرِيّ (buḥayriyy, “Of the Beheira Governate, from around Lake Mareotis”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.[1]
Proper noun
Bohairic
- The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE
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References
- ^ Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR