Etymology

Sahidic

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Today it means: A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt. Full definition →

Arabic صَعِيدِي
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  1. Arabic · calque ofصَعِيدِي“Upper Egyptian, Thebaic”
  2. English todaySahidic

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

Words from the same roots

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Ṣaʽīdi

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.