"Thank You"?

Author: * Neseret Sekhmet - 21 Posts on this thread out of 21 Posts sitewide.
Date: Nov 23, 2006 - 08:59

Heraklia asked:

"How do you say "thank you" in demotic?"

You certainly stumped me with that one, mainly because Demotic is not that well understood, and is definitely not my forté.

So, I asked a colleague for whom the later versions of Egyptian, including Demotic, are more his area of expertise. He replied:

The best I could find was Coptic: that is μιο mio + suffix (miok [masc.]; μιω miō [fem.]; μιωτη miōtē [pl.]).
Demotic isn’t going to be a lot different.

I hope this assisted (and I hope the Greek and Coptic letters turn out OK: we had the devil of the time transferring them into this format).

Best --

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg