Etymology

mammisi

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Today it means: a subsidiary chapel in Ancient Egypt attached to a larger temple and associated with the nativity of a god Full definition →

French mammisi ← cop-boh *ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ ← Egyptian pr-ms
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The story

  1. Egyptian · derived frompr-ms“mammisi”
  2. cop-boh · derived from*ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ
  3. French · borrowed frommammisi
  4. English todaymammisi

Borrowed from French mammisi, a neologism coined by Jean-François Champollion as if from Bohairic Coptic *ⲙⲁⲙ̀ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (*mam̀misi) (a term otherwise unattested), from ⲙⲁ (ma, “place”) + ⲛ̀- (ǹ-, “of”) + ⲙⲓⲥⲓ (misi, “birth”) as a calque of earlier Egyptian pr-ms (“mammisi”, literally “house of birth”).

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