Despite the long history of loanword studies in Coptic, there are still areas which require further investigation. In particular, little is known about lexical borrowing in non-literary texts. This study examines the use of Greek... more
Despite the long history of loanword studies in Coptic, there are still areas which require further investigation. In particular, little is known about lexical borrowing in non-literary texts. This study examines the use of Greek loanwords in non-literary Coptic texts through a focus on Greek conjunctions. Data from this study is drawn from legal texts and letters from the Theban region, composed in the 7th and 8th centuries. The results from this study have important implications for our understanding of Greek lexical borrowing in non-literary Coptic, the language of non-literary texts as a whole, as well as scribal practices in Late Antique Egypt.
