I'm afraid my knowledge is not enough, so there is a big chance my answer is wrong. I'm mostly getting my info from wiki and some knowledge of Greek alphabets.
But like wiki said, for the numeral system, the Greeks needed 27 symbols, while they onl…
Did you check the link I gave you? There you can see the letter used for 6 in Greek (ϝʹ or ϛʹ or στʹ, im seeing blocks when I copy them, but I can see the letter themselves when I check the wiki). There you can also see that the Greek number for 90…
ΧPICTOC ANECTH
I thought the same, that the letter coo came from demotic (ayin sound?)
The reason why it's in the alphabet is quite logical
I think. For numbers, each letter in the alphabet is given a number (by adding a supralinear stroke, i.e. A…
The Coptic dictionary of Crum does not contain the word lighthouse unfortunately. I don't know whether there is any word in Coptic for it.
I think you could use the Greek word or a self constructed Coptic word like house of light, but I don't know…
Dear RamezM
I will try to be nice and humble.
First. I do not like this accusation. How you portrayed my argumentation is ridiciulous. I do not consider language to be a matter of Orthodoxy. Nowhere have I said this!
I will explain again what I …
Contra some of the 'good reasons'
1) Of course, it makes no sense when a hymn is chanted by two chanters using two different pronunciations. Therefore, the GB should now be viewed as the standard way, but there should be a move towards OB if we tru…
Just a quick question.
Wouldn't the application of OB mean that :eodoroc would be pronounced as Tawodoros. Why does the 2nd 'o' disappear? I mean, the fact that Arabic pronounces a name in a certain way, doesn't mean that OB has the exact same pron…
[quote author=imikhail link=topic=69.msg158173#msg158173 date=1343428287]
St Mary is in paradise. No human has entered the Heaven include St. Mary herself.
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So the Synaxarium is wrong (again)?
http://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/5_21.ht…
@caji What is your source? I've checked multiple sites and they simply state "Lord"
@Athanasius1:
Greco Bohairic: The one that minatasgeel stated, but epshiri instead of emshiri
and OB: ebshois iesous bìkhrìstos. ebshiri mebnoudi. nai nei. anok be…
Kurioc Iycouc Pi`,rictoc. `pSyri `m`Vnou]. nai nyi. pirefernobi
`P=o=c I=y=c P=,=c. `pSyri `m`V]. nai nyi. pirefernobi
I don't know if there is an official one, but I think you can use one of these at least. If you can't read Coptic, just ask for…
Dear Mabsoota,
You are mistaken, unfortunately. On the twenty forth day of Baremhat, we commemorated the departure of Anba Macarius, the fifty ninth Pope of Alexandria, while on the twenty seventh day of Baremhat, we commemorated the departure of S…
Like imikhail said, the 't' in Sahidic is sometimes a t and sometimes a d. This is true as Sahidic words were sometimes written with a tau and sometimes a delta.
Taking your example Pavnoute, Sahidic is only inconsistent with OB when it comes to th…
[quote author=Aegyptian link=topic=12394.msg151807#msg151807 date=1329158944]
[quote author=Remnkemi link=topic=12394.msg151724#msg151724 date=1329002712]
(1) There is no j in Sahidic. All words with j in Bohairic have their Sahidic equivalents wit…
Surely we should make a difference between the result of deliberate human action, and so called 'accidents of nature'.
For example.. 15 people are standing in the street minding their own business. 1 gets killed by a terrorist. Was that just bad lu…
[quote author=Remnkemi link=topic=12781.msg150613#msg150613 date=1326832204]
Ophadece and imikhail,
What you fail to acknowledge is that OB is just as much a reconstructed dialect as GB. If GB was created erroneously, so was OB.[/quote]
Either way…
Small question about a verse from the Psali Watos for Great Lent:
+ Uc pimet`cnau `n`apoctoloc@ auhi`wis qen `vran `et`cmarwout@ hiten pi`slyl nem ]nyctia@ autounoc nirefmw`out.
+ Behold the twelve apostles, preached in the blessed name, through p…
[quote author=Gabriella link=topic=12807.msg150447#msg150447 date=1326570538]
I downloaded the fonts from under "Download for Windows" and refreshed the site but it still looks the same to me...is there anything else I need to do?
My apologies, I'm …
Apen=o=c I=y=c P=,=c@ vy`etac macf `nje ]Par;enoc@ qen By;leem `nte ]Ioude`a@ kata ni`cmy `m`provytikon
It should indeed be Pen=o=c, but not for the reasons you stated. The letter A points out that the sentence is in past tense. But in this case "w…