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This note is directed at Solomon and the question of how Coptic expresses the adjective "divine".
Adjectives in Coptic are used, as in many other languages, attributively and predicatively. However, it must be recognized that Coptic does not have words that function specifically as adjectives. It has nouns and verbs which fulfill this function.
The attributive use has two forms:
(a) one noun is followed by another noun, attached by means of -N-, as in English *ouksour nnoub*"a ring of gold"= "gold ring";
(b) a noun is followed by a relative clause, as in English "a man who is ill".

The predicative use also has two forms:
(a) nominal sentence: *oudikaiospe pjoeis* OR *pjoeis oudikaiospe", lit. "He is a righteous, the Lord"/The Lord, He is a righteous";
(b) verbal sentence: *efholq* "he is sweet", *peksôma têrf nashôpe efo nkake* lit. "your whole body will become it being darkness, i.e. dark".

I don't know what Layton says, but this description on based largely on that of Till. Interestingly, Till does not use the term "Adjektiv", but confines himself to "Eigenschaft", a more suitable term.


 
 


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This note is directed at Solomon and the question of how Coptic expresses the adjective "divine". Adjectives in Coptic are used, as in many other languages,...
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Dear Anthony, Thanks for your comments on the way Coptic expresses adjectival usage. Layton states that adjectival predicates "are ambiguous," since they may...
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