Coptic Post 9: Coptic Collection in the British Museum

Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the British Museum. By W.E. Crum (1905)

Coptic Lesson 9: Possessive Pronouns

Coptic Tip 9: Possessive Pronouns

Dependent possessive pronouns (similar to the Hieroglyphic possessive pronouns) are attached to the beginning of the object.
"pek-son" means "your brother".

Independent possessive pronouns are placed after the object.
"pison phok" means "(the) brother of yours" or "your brother".

Hieroglyphic Post 9: The Secret Life of the Egyptian Collection

Egyptian Collection at the Penn Museum

Hieroglyphic Lesson 9: Possessive Pronouns

Hieroglyphic Tip 9: Possessive Pronouns

The object nominatives can be combined with the subject meaning "belonging to", and they are:
"pa" for male, "ta" for female, and "na" for plural objects

For instance, "Pa-Isi" is a proper name meaning "He who belongs to Isis"

"Ta" can also mean "the land of", such as "Ta-Seti" or "Land of the Arch" (Nubia).

When combined with the suffix pronouns, pa/ta/na becomes a possessive pronoun
"paif/taif/naif" means "that (m/f/pl) belonging to him" or "his"


ALTERNATIVELY, suffix pronouns can simply follow the object in this manner.
"per-f" means "his house"

Coptic Link 8: Coptic Art and Archaeology

The Art of the Christian Egyptians from the Late Antique to the Middle Ages

Coptic Post 8: Demonstrative Pronouns

Coptic Tip 8: Demonstrative Pronouns

The far demonstrative pronouns (that, those), broken down, literally means "that which is (over) there."

The near demonstrative pronouns (this, these) are either written as a pronoun attached to the beginning of the subject, or as an adjective following the subject.

Hieroglyphic Link 8: The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus

The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus: Hieroglyphic transliteration, translation and commentary

Hieroglyphic Post 8: Demonstrative Pronouns

Hieroglyphic Tip 8: Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns start with a gender- or number-based symbol and end in one of the following:
-n   near (this), Middle Egyptian
-f    far (that), Middle Egyptian
-w  near (this), Early Egyptian
-a   near (this), colloquial Egyptian

Coptic Post 7: Bohairic Morphology

OUTLINE OF BOHAIRIC COPTIC MORPHOLOGY

Coptic Lesson 7: Pronouns

Coptic Tip 7: Pronoun

Pronouns are gender-based and number-based.

Hieroglyphic Post 7: Funny, Faulty Hieroglyphic Reading

Hieroglyphic Sketch - The Two Ronnies

Hieroglyphic Lesson 7: Pronouns

Hieroglyphic Tip 7: First-Person Pronouns

The first-person pronouns, mostly include humanoid symbols.

Coptic Post 6: History of Coptic

History of Coptic

Coptic Lesson 6: Sentence

Coptic Tip 6: Pronouns

Typically a verb has two pronouns attached to it, a subject pronoun prefix and an object pronoun suffix.

Hieroglyphic Post 6: Middle Egyptian Grammar Book

Middle Egyptian: Google books preview

Hieroglyphic Lesson 6: Sentence

Hieroglyphic Tip 6: Subject

The subject of the sentence is not necessary to be included in the sentence, except in the form of a name or a pronoun embedded in the verb.

Sincere Apologies

Sorry for the long unannounced hiatus the blog took, as I have been very occupied this whole time, but posts and lessons will be posted on a more regular pace now.

Coptic Post 5: Pisakho (The Sage)

For the Study of Coptic Language and Culture

Coptic Lesson 5: Coptic Numerals, Continued

Coptic Tip 5: Numbers in a Sentence

Like the fractions and the cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers function as adjectives to the noun they describe. Thus, they follow the gender of the noun.

Hieroglyphic Post 5: The Moscow Papyrus

Mathematical papyrus

Hieroglyphic Lesson 5: Hieroglyphic Numerals, Continued

Hieroglyphic Tip 5: Fractions

The "mouth" symbol placed on top of the number signifies "part." So if the mouth is placed on top of three strokes, it means "one part of three." 

The numerator is always one in each fraction, so in order to say 2/3, the scribe writes 1/3+1/3, represented in hieroglyphics as follows