The “Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic” (DDGLC, Freie Universität Berlin), the research project “Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache ”Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae” (TLA, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and “Coptic Scriptorium: Digital Research in Coptic Language and Literature” are happy to announce the release of version 1 of the “Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon“. The processed data has been published by the Coptic Dictionary Online:

  • Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), https://coptic-dictionary.org/

The raw data can be downloaded at:

  • D. Burns, F. Feder, K. John, M. Kupreyev, et al. 12.5.2019. Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon: Including Loanwords from Ancient Greek, Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-2333

The Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon includes ca. 8,000 Egyptian-Coptic lemmata with ca. 10,000 word forms, as well as ca. 3,250 Greek-Coptic lemmata with ca. 10,000 forms.

DDGLC, TLA and Coptic Scriptorium invite you to take a look at the new data and would welcome your feedback.