The Coptic Dictionary Online aims to make it easy to look up Coptic words in all dialects and supply freely accessible translations in English, French and German, via human and machine readable interfaces. To learn more about using this dictionary, check out our quick how-to guide.
This project was made possible through the help of the following:
Lexicon preparation
The new Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon is a combination of two parts: the BBAW Lexicon of Coptic Egyptian of the project Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany, which includes etymologically Egyptian lexemes of Coptic, and the DDGLC Lexicon of Greek Loanwords in Coptic of the project Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic at the Ägyptologisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Both projects are led by Prof. Tonio Sebastian Richter. The following people mainly contributed to compiling the lexical data:
- Dylan M. Burns (DDGLC)
- Frank Feder (BBAW, AdWG)
- Katrin John (DDGLC)
- Maxim Kupreyev (BBAW)
moreover
- Mathew Almond, Sina Becker, Marc Brose, Sonja Dahlgren, Julien Delhez, Anne Grons, Joost Hagen, Jakob Höper, Mariana Jung, Elisabeth Koch, Lena Krastel, Frederic Krueger, Peter Missael, Jan Moje, Franziska Naether, Simon D. Schweitzer, Anne Sörgel, Nina Speranskaja, Gunnar Sperveslage, Vincent Walter, Daniel A. Werning and Alberto Winterberg.
Each lexicon entry has a stable Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA) ID no.
TEI XML compliant data files of the lexica are published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license at DOI 10.17169/refubium-27566.
Search interface
The search interface is operated and maintained by Georgetown University. It was originally developed as part of the project KELLIA by:
- Emma Manning
- Amir Zeldes
Links for Greek words are provided pointing to the Perseus Greek lexicon and to Logeion. Ancient Egyptian etymologies were aligned to Coptic TLA entries by TLA/Simon D. Schweitzer (data also available under a CC-BY-SA license).
Projects
- Coptic Scriptorium, Georgetown University, University of the Pacific.
- CoptOT - Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (AdWG), Germany.
- Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
- Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), partners: BBAW, Georgetown University, University of Göttingen, University of Münster, University of the Pacific.
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA), Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), Berlin, Germany.
Funding
- Akademienprogramm der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Reporting issues / contributing
For issues regarding dictionary content or the interface, please use our Issue Tracker and choose the appropriate template to report your issue.
How to cite this page
As an academic citation describing the dictionary as a whole, please cite the following paper:
Frank Feder, Maxim Kupreyev, Emma Manning, Caroline T. Schroeder, and Amir Zeldes (2018). A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online. In Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 12–21.
To cite the CDO interface when using dictionary entries, use the following format:
Coptic Dictionary Online, ed. by the Koptische/Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance (KELLIA), https://coptic-dictionary.org/ (accessed yyyy-mm-dd).