ليه نوفري شاي غلط لغويا ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ ϣⲁⲓ is wrong

[bashandy]

من كتابات د/كمال فريد اسحق أستاذ اللغة القبطية
Kamal Farid Ishaq

on September 14, 2024


عيد سعيد:  Happy Feast
—
تصحيح:
يوجد  عند مستخدمي اللغة القبطية تعبير شائع خطأ هو
Ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ ϣⲁⲓ
بمعنى “عيد سعيد”. وهو تعبير خطأ لأنه لا يتكون من إسم وصفة يؤديان المعنى المطلوب بل يتكون من إسمين متجاورين ( أي
 ( in juxtaposition)
وكلمة
 ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ
ليست.صفة معناها “سعيد” بل هي إسم معناه “منفعة / خير”. أي أن:
Ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ ϣⲁⲓ
معناها حرفيا هو  “منفعة. عيد”
وهو تعبير لا معنى له.

[bashandy]

Correction : of ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ ϣⲁⲓ:
Those who try to speak Coptic use a wrong expression which is Ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ ϣⲁⲓ to mean “happy feast”.
But this is a wrong expression because it does not consist of a an adjective and a noun which express the required meaning, but it consists of two nouns in juxtaposition.
And the word ⲛⲟϥⲣⲓ is not an adjective which means “happy”, but it is a feminine noun which means “good, profit, advantage. So it is a meaningless expression.

by Dr Kamal Farid Ishaq

[bashandy]

On the other hand of the argument
Ναβερϣάι (PLond 4) (Preisigke) was mentioned twice in the Coptic Dictionary by Crum (1939). from the manner of its writing it seems to have been an expression from Old Coptic which is  an intermediate stage between Demotic and Coptic. So, even the existence of an Old Coptic expression might not be sufficient for it to be grammatical in Coptic language, as there are considerable differences in syntax between Old Coptic and Coptic.