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Coptic Dictionary Online

This tutorial will introduce you to the basic functionality of the Coptic Dictionary Online, created by the KELLIA project. The KELLIA project is a collaboration between German and US researchers working in Coptic Digital Humanities, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. (more information)

NOTE: The links below are live. We recommend you right-click or command-click to open links in new windows, so you can keep this window open and available.

First simply type the search window a Coptic word (in utf-8/unicode Coptic characters). You can control for dialect and part of speech (N=noun, V=Verb, etc.) or you can leave those options blank.

  • If you can't think of one, try ϣⲏⲣⲉ (direct link here)
  • What information is there?
  • Hover over the icon with the red down arrow and numbers 1 and 9 -- what do you learn?
  • Hover over the red squiggly network icon to the right that -- what do you learn?
  • Click on that white box with the spidery graphic inside it -- what does that tell you?
  • Try clicking on the blue link that reads CD something something

Now try ⲉⲝⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁ (direct link here)

  • What do you notice?
  • Scroll down and click on the Greek version of the word ἐξουσία -- what happens?

You can also try ϩⲏⲧ (direct link here)

  • What happens when you click "Include Related Entries"

In any entry: Click on the RED C icon. This is the icon for the search tool for our digital corpus (ANNIS). You will get the results for all the matching lemmas for ϣⲏⲣⲉ in our corpora. Take a look.

Be sure to check out the search tips on the "How To" page. Play around with searches for words containing particular suffixes, prefixes, or character strings.

  • Try a search for ⲟ.ⲉ
  • Compare that to results for ⲟ.*ⲉ

You can even search translations. Forget what the Coptic word for "river" is?

  • Try typing "river" into the quick search bar on the top of the screen
  • Or go to the Dictionary home page and try typing "river" into the Translation box.
  • You can search translations in English, French, and German