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Avqaav / Avqaaf

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abahoor

posted on May 28, 2008 - 01:29 PM

Now what is the right speelling. Au,au or Au,af or are they just two diffrent words?!

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ophadeece

posted on May 28, 2008 - 04:18 PM

Dear Abahoor,
I think the second word makes more sense. "Av" is the very adjunctive of "they", which is used in Coptic to refer to the indirect speech; "ka" comes from "kw" meaning leave, or cause to put someone in some state (e.g. "afka nennovi nan evol" = (lit.) left our sins out), and the last "f" not "v" refers to him (masculine direct object). In summary, it is "avkaf = he was left"
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