FromDemotic Egyptian⁠⁠(ꜥ.wy,“house”), from Late PeriodEgyptian(ꜥ,“house”), from earlierEgyptian(ꜥt,“room”) (or else a formation from the same root). Vycichl notes that the plural formⲏⲟⲩ(ēou) is certainly an innovation rather than inherited.

ⲏⲓ• (ēi) m (pluralⲏⲟⲩ(ēou)or(A,B,F)ⲏⲩ(ēu))(Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic, Fayyumic, Old Coptic)

1. house
2. household,family

• ⲏⲉⲓ(ēei) —Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan

FromDemotic Egyptian⁠(ꜥ.wy,“arms, pair”), fromEgyptian(ꜥ,“arm, part, portion, pair, region”).

ⲏⲓ• (ēi) m (pluralⲏⲓ(ēi))

1. (Sahidic, Bohairic)pair,couple

FromDemotic Egyptianj(“O!”), fromEgyptian(j,“O!”).

ⲏⲓ• (ēi)

1. (Old Coptic)O!

• Crum, Walter E. (1939),A Coptic Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press,→ISBN,page66
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976),Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,pages41–42
• Vycichl, Werner (1983),Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters,→ISBN,pages52–53

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