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C O P T I C IN T W E N T Y LESSONS C O P T I C IN 20 LESSONS Introduction to Sahidic Coptic With Exercises & Vocabularies Bentley Layton PEETERS Leuven - Paris - Dudley 2007  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Layton, Bentley Coptic in 20 l...

C O P T I C IN T W E N T Y LESSONS C O P T I C IN 20 LESSONS Introduction to Sahidic Coptic With Exercises & Vocabularies Bentley Layton PEETERS Leuven - Paris - Dudley 2007  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Layton, Bentley Coptic in 20 lessons: introduction to Sahidic Coptic with exercises & vocabularies / Bentley Layton p. cm. - Includes index ISBN 90-429-1810-1 (alk. paper) 1. Coptic language - Grammar - Textbooks. 2. Sahidic dialect - Grammar - Textbooks. PJ2035.L39 2006 4937.2522 - dc.22 2006047412 © 2006 - Peeters - Bondgenotenlaan 153 - 3000 Leuven D. 2006/0602/98 ISBN-10 90-429-1810-1 ISBN-13 978-90-429-1810-8 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo- copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. CONTENTS Foreword. vii 1. Coptic. The Alphabet. Regular Replacements. Simplifications. Abbrevia- tions. / 2. Articles and What They Express. Noun. Proper Noun. Omission of Article. Article Phrase. 'And', 'Or', and 'Of. 13 3. Possessive Article. Simple Nominal Sentence. 24 4. Adjective. Attributive Construction. Adjectival Predicate. 32 5. Nominal Sentences with Three Members. 38 6. Specifiers. Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers. 45 7. Preposition. Personal Suffixes. Possessed Noun. Compound Preposition. Combinative Adverb. 51 8. Possessive Pronoun. Survey of Articles and Pronouns. 60 9. Durative Sentence. Infinitive and Stative. Adjectival Meaning. Comparative and Superlative. Direct Object. Additional Predicate after a Direct Object. Ingressive. 67 10. Non-durative Conjugation: Main Clause Conjugation Bases. 'To Be' in Coptic. 79 11. Bound States of the Infinitive. Direct Object Constructions. Compound Infinitives. Imperative. Vocative. 86 12. Non-durative Conjugation: Subordinate Clause Conjugation Bases. Inflected Modifier. Some Stylistic Devices. 98 13. Causative Infinitive. Verboids. 'To Have'. Dynamic Passive. 108 14. Impersonal Predicates. The Four Conversions. Preterit Conversion. How Conversion Works. 777 15. Asyndetic Connection of Clauses. Adverb. Circumstantial Conversion. 130 16. Relative Conversion. 140 17. Relative Conversion (Continued). 147 18. Focalizing Conversion. 154 19. Cleft Sentence. Reported Discourse and Thought. 164  CONTENTS 20. Conditional Sentences. Purpose and Result. Correlated Comparison. 770 Chrestomathy: The Gospel of Mark, Chapters One to Three. 777 Reference List of Coptic Forms. 187 Subject Index. 207 VI FOREWORD T H I S book will quickly teach you all the basic patterns of Coptic, mainly at the level of phrases and sentences. It contains drills to help you gain fluency as well as translation exercises, both from Coptic to English and from English to Coptic. A vocabulary list is given at the end of most lessons. If you memorize these lists thoroughly, you will know all the words that occur more than fifty times in the Sahidic Coptic New Testament'. In order to read Coptic it is absolutely essential to memorize these lists. Once you have finished learning the contents of this book, you will be ready to read the Gospel of Mark in Coptic^. The first three chapters of Mark are included in this book, with vocabulary glosses. Ordinarily one academic year should be enough time to complete both the grammar and all sixteen chapters of the Gospel. The book can be used in the classroom or to teach yourself Coptic. The vocabulary lists include common Greek equivalents for Egyptian Coptic words, based on the Coptic translation of the New Testament. (For more information, con- sult the Concordance du nouveau testament sahidique^). In the vocabularies, Greco- Coptic words are starred (*). Bold face numbers occurring within the text—for example in the phrase "double vowel (9)" on page 8—make cross-reference to section numbers of the grammar. Some information of an advanced level is provided in boxes. A very inclusive Reference List of Coptic Forms is provided for your convenience ' To instructors of elementaiy Coptic, I recommend giving a vocabulary quiz whenever a lesson is finished, perhaps ten words from Coptic to English and ten more from English to Coptic. ' Easiest to read will be Homer's text in normal classical spelling: [George Homer, ed.J The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect Otherwise Called Sahidic and Thebaic (Osnabruck: Zeller, 1969 reprint of 1911 edition) vol. I, pp. 3 5 2 - 6 3 9. Students interested in early, non-standardized Coptic may wish instead to study Quecke's edition of an early Barcelona manuscript: Hans Quecke, e d. , D a s Markusevangelium saidisch: Text derHandschriflPPalau Rib. Inv.-Nr. 182 mil den Varianten der Handschrifl M 569 (Barcelona: Papyrologia Castroctaviana, 1972), distributed by Biblical Institute Press (Rome). Quecke's introduction includes a detailed dis- cussion of the spelling of the manuscript. ' In 5 vols. (Corpus Scriptomm Christianorum Orientalium, Subsidia; Louvain: CSCO). Les mots d'origine grecque. by L.-Th. Lefort (Subsidia 1; 1964); Les mots autochtones, 3 vols., by Michel Wilmet (Subsidia 11, 13, 15; 1957, 1958, 1959); Index copte et grec-copte, by Rene Dragnet (Subsidia 16; 1960). vii  FOREWORD in the back matter of this book. You should use this list whenever you have trouble identifying a form, or difficulty making sense of a passage. You will also find a Subject Index, which lists all the topics discussed in this book. You may want to pursue some grammatical topics in greater detail and to read a wide selection of real examples taken from the Coptic literature. This information can be found in Bentley Layton, A Coptic Grammar (ISBN 3-447-04833-6; 2d edi- tion, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004; www.harrassowitz-verlag.de), to which I have provided references throughout the present book, using the siglum " C G " fol- lowed by paragraph number. You can get more practice reading Coptic by using the chrestomathy and vocabulary printed at the end of that work. You should purchase a copy of W.E. Crum, A Coptic Dictiotiary (Oxford: Clarendon, 1939 and various reprints) and start learning its contents once you've finished this grammar, or even before. I am extremely grateful to Dr. Sofia Torallas Tovar for obtaining the photograph reproduced in lesson one; to Dr. Alberto Nodar for photographing it; and to the Archivo General de la Compafiia de Jesiis en Catalunya (Barcelona) for permission to reproduce it here. Several colleagues who have taught Coptic from a draft of this book kindly sent me corrections and suggestions, and to them I am also very grate- ful : David Brakke, Paul Dilley, and Colleen Manassa. Good luck! I hope you enjoy Coptic! Yale University, New Haven (Connecticut) Via LESSON 1 COPTIC. THE ALPHABET. REGULAR REPLACEMENTS. SIMPLIFICATIONS. ABBREVIATIONS. 1. C O P T I C is the final stage of the indigenous language of Egypt as it was writ- ten in the Nile Valley, the Egyptian Delta, and the Oases about A D 300-1000. It is the direct descendent of Ancient Egyptian, which was once written in the hiero- glyphic, hieratic, and Demotic writing systems. Philologists treat Egyptian as a lan- guage group unto itself; it has some affinities with Semitic and various African lan- guages. Coptic Egyptian flourished in Egypt until about A D 1000, by which time it had been replaced by Arabic as the language of daily life in Egypt. Unlike the nota- tion of all previous stages of Egyptian (stretching back to before 3000 B C ) Coptic was written in an alphabet, based on Greek. The Coptic writing system must have been standardized by the Christian religious establishment in the third century A D. Coptic comprised a number of dialects, of which Sahidic (centered perhaps in Shmoun-Hermopolis-AI Ashmunein) had the greatest literary importance and the widest use in the Nile valley. Almost all native Coptic literature was composed in Sahidic, between A D 325-800^ Sahidic is the dialect taught in this grammar. Because the climate of Egypt is especially favorable for the preservation of antiqui- ties—desert conditions prevail south of Cairo, as one goes up the Nile Valley—an astonishing number of very early Coptic manuscripts have been discovered, dating from A D 300 onwards, and the number continues to grow. The book as we know it (the codex format) was invented in Egypt, and these earliest Coptic manuscripts are the earliest known examples of the book. Coptic literature, which survives in a number of dialects, comprises both original works and translations from the Greek and was mostly intended for use in the non- Greek churches and monasteries of Egypt. It includes several translations of the Bible made from Greek starting about A D 300, which are a very early indirect attes- tation of the Greek text and a direct indication of an Egyptian (perhaps Alexandrian) understanding of what it meant: the Coptic versions are of great importance to mod- ' The hturgy of the present day Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt is written in a mixture of Arabic, Greel^, and Bohairic Coptic, the ancient dialect of the Delta and the great monasteries of the Wadi Natrun. Coptic is no longer a living language.  LESSON ONE em scholars of Biblical textual criticism. In antiquity, the Bible text in Coptic was the foundation on which Coptic literary style was erected. Organized, coenobitic Christian monasticism began in Egypt, and the writings of the early monastic founders—Pachomius, Theodore, Horsiese, Shenoute, Besa (all of them Copts)— give us precious and unique documentation of daily life in the monastery and the ideology of coenobitic asceticism. This is especially true in the case of Shenoute, the leader of a monastic federation from A D 3 8 5 ^ 6 5 , whose Coptic writings (spanning seventy years) survive in great quantity; Shenoute is the most prolific native Coptic author and its first real stylist. Also extant are business documents and personal let- ters, concerning both monastic and secular life. Because the survival of early Coptic manuscripts was dictated more by climate than by theological orthodoxy, a very wide selection of apocryphal and heretical works has also survived. Most famous among these are the fourth-century Nag Hammadi man- uscripts, which are of paramount importance for the study of ancient Gnosticism; it is not clear who read and paid for the copying of these manuscripts. Coptic Manichean texts are also of great interest for the Western branch of Mani's world reli- gion; not only scriptural works but also everyday letters of Manichean Copts have been discovered. Most Nag Hammadi and Manichean texts are not written in the pure classical Sahidic dialect and so require some additional study once classical Sahidic has been mastered. Native Egyptian (pre-Christian) religion continued to find literary expression in Coptic, in a corpus somewhat prejudicially labelled Coptic magic. Other ecclesiastical literature includes all the apparatus needed to operate Coptic Orthodox churches and monasteries; lectionaries, hymnals, missals, books of hours, homilies and antiphons for the feasts of saints and martyrs, canon law, monastic rules and biographies, sayings of desert father and mothers, etc. On the other hand, not rep- resented in Coptic are corpora of systematic theology by the great fathers of the church, verse by verse Biblical commentary, secular works of science, education, belles lettres, and the like: for these, Egyptians would have turned to the Greek orig- inals (or even Syriac), and later to their Arabic counterparts. |CG 1-6] 2. Coptic vocabulary comes from two sources. Egyptian Coptic words, as well as the grammatical strucnire, are from the indigenous language of the Nile Valley. Greco- Coptic words were adopted from Greek, especially after the Macedonian conquest of Egypt (332 B C ) , which imposed upon the Egyptians a Greek-speaking government based in Alexandria. Greek was also the administrative language of the Roman and Byzantine province of Egypt and was gradually replaced by Arabic after A D 642. About one fourth of the Sahidic Coptic New Testament word list is Greco-Coptic. fCG 7] 3. The authoritative dictionary is W. E. Crum, A Coptic Dictionary (1939 and reprints); it contains only Egyptian-Coptic words. Greco-Coptic vocabulary must be looked up in the standard Greek dictionaries: H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, and H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (1939 with reprints and later revisions);  THE ALPHABET W. F. Amdt, W. Bauer, and F. W. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (2000, and earlier editions); G. W. H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon (1968). THE A L P H A B E T 4. The Coptic alphabet is the twenty-four Greek letters written in rounded form (thus e c oj), to which are added six additional letters taken from Egyptian (Demotic script); qj q 2 6 -j-. Approximate pronunciations of these thirty letters are given in table 1. In ancient manuscripts there is no space between words, as you can see in the photograph below. Coptic has no question mark to distinguish questions from affirmations. [CG 8] T A B L E 1 PRONUNCIATION OF T H E ALPHABFIT Pronunciation Modem Pronunciation Modem Name Name a Alpha n. n P Pi B, B b =b Beta r. F r "=r Rho r. r g =g Gamma c, c s Sigma A d Delta T, T t ^t Tau e e Epsilon Y w u Upsilon z z Zeta ph Phi H a' Eta X kh Chi e th Theta t. ps Psi 1 y i Iota 6^ Omega K, ic k =k Kappa s'' Shai A, \ 1 n Lambda f =f Fai M, M m =m Mu 2. z h =h Hore(h) N. Ti n "n Nu X, X c^ Djandja 2, 5 ks =ks Xi 6, S Kyima o, o2 Omicron t ty ti Ti NOTES: 'a is pronounced "AY," as in ate. -Be sure to make a difference between x and o: i like "hat" and o like "hot." ^a> like "old." ""As in ship. 'As in church. Five count as vowels (A e H o cu) and the remaining twenty-five are either conso- nants or combinations of letters. Almost every consonant has two possible pronunciations, depending on where it appears. [CG 35] i. A non-syllabic pronunciation, e.g. bor k (cf. Greek p and K ). B as in B C D bo, and in 2tDB hob K as in KcuT kot, and in pcuic rok  T H E A L P H A B E T ii. A syllabic pronunciation, with an insignificant resonant sound ', or the like) just before the letter, e.g. "h or ''k. The syllabic pronunciation helps to form a syl- lable. Letters with a syllabic pronunciation are often written with a superlinear stroke above them*. Thus B (or simply B) = "^b, 'b, etc., as in T B B O fb-bo ic (or simply K) = "^k, 'k, etc., as in T I C T O t'k-to The syllabic pronunciations of the consonants i and y are / ("EE") and u ( " O O " ) ; these are not marked with the superlinear stroke. Position of the superlinear stroke. Some Coptic scribes write the stroke directly above a letter that has a syllabic reading, i.e. above a single letter. This "single- stroke system" is used in the present book: CUSTM. Other Coptic scribes write a longer stroke, connecting all (or some) of the letters in any syllable formed by a letter with syllabic reading, C C U T M : this is the "connective-stroke system." Both systems are ancient, and in both systems the stroke is sometimes shifted slightly to the right. The letters B A M N p are more persistently marked than any others. [CG 38] 5. The trema (diaeresis) symbol (') is sometimes written over i or y , with no appar- ent meaning: V, y: M c u y c H c. Likewise, the circumflex (") is sometimes written over a single letter or connects a pair of letters, again with no apparent meaning: p, eT. [CG 12] The superlinear stroke is optional. It is written most often above the sonorant consonants B A M N and p. (Facing page) Gospel of Mark 1:1-1:6. P. Palau Ribes inv. 182 in the Archivo General of the Compaiiia de Jesus en Catalunya, Barcelona. Parchment. Written in a regular uncial script without word division; dated to A D 400-450 by H. Quecke. © Archivo General de la Compafiia de Jesiis en Catalunya, reproduced by permission. Photo by Alberto Nodar. Scale 1:1. In the photograph, note the title M A. p K o c cen- tered in the upper margin; to the right is the page number 1= 1. In the left column, 5 lines from the bottom, is a straight paragraphos sign (above A q t y c u n e A e ) , mark- ing the end of the prologue to Mark. Note the use of connective superlinear strokes (2N, N T G T N ) [many of the strokes are very faint]; tremas (cx'ii^c "Isaiah," M O V T , j c ^ i e ) ; and a few raised points to conclude sections of text (left column ( ( I H T H C * , M o i T » ; right column N N O B e * , N O B e » , ereq-J-ne*). In the left column at the end of line 9, the letter K is written small and "stacked" over o to prevent the word M M O K from running too far into the margin. The left margin of each column is justified; but note that the letters T ,.dv nHcy^ ( b e ) split = HEpi^EcrOai COBTe prepare = Sxoindi^eiv CBTCUT* ready = ETOIHO? CMOY bless = e\)Xoye.iv CMAMAAT^ blessed, happy — svXoyTi\'z6q, e u X o y e i o G a i CCUTTt choose = ^K^cyEtrGai COTTT^ elect, chosen = &KX£Kx6q ca)OY2 gather CTUvdyEiv cooY2^ assembled = CTUvdyECTGai, auvEpxccrGai czxi write = ypd(t)Eiv CHZ^ scripture, written = yEypd(j)E0Oai 71  LESSON NINE t give, give back = (d7to)6i56vai TO' fated, put = C^ECJTIV TBBO purify KaGapi^Eiv TBBHY^ pure = KaGapo? TAeiO to h o n o r Tipav TAeiHy* glorious, honored EVTinog, So^cti^EcrGai TAKO ruin = TAKHYT^ TAAO corrupt take up, mount, board - 5ia(t)GEip£a0ai CivaXanPavEiv TAAHY^ seated, o n board KaGf|CTOai TCU2M invite = KUXEIV TAgM^ TAJCPO invited, invitee m a k e firm - K^TiTog, KaXEicrOai CTTTlpi^ElV TAJCPHY^ solid = 0\iVN make open dvoiyEiv OYHN^ open dvoiyEcOai OYCUN2 EBOA OYON2* eBOA reveal manifest, clear - ct)avepoCv (t)av£p6(;, (t)avxd^EaGai oywz lay upon, o c c u p y JtpOCTTlGEVai, KatOlKElV rest, inhabit = pCVElV, KaxOlKElV oyxxi b e c o m e healthy, saved CTCp^ECTGai oyojc^ healthy, saved, safe = uyifi? cun calculate, consider >.oyi^ECTGai Hn^ ajcun reckoned receive, buy - dpiGnEiaGai SsXECTGai, dyopdi^Eiv qjHn^ accepted, acceptable 5EK:T6(; cycucuT qjAAT^ cut off, sacrifice, lack fall s h o r t , b e l a c k i n g - (iKKOJtTElV, GUEIV, UaTEpElV UCTTEpElV qjTopTp disturb xapdaCTccGai cyTpTcop* disturbed GopoPEicrGai 2cun 2Hn^ hide secret - Kpl)7tTElV KpUTtTOi; xo XHy^ sow s o w n with seed - — CTTCElpElV CTTCOplOq XiUK eBOA fill - 7tA,TipoCv XHK* e B O A full - jtXfipTig, TrXripoijciGai 72  INFINITIVE AND STATIVE raise up u\|;oi)v xoce* high = u\|/Ti^6(; (h) Process. eiBe b e c o m e thirsty Siyav ose* thirsty 5i\)/av MOY die (become dead) dTloGvTlCTKElV MOOYT^ dead v8Kp6q (UNZ Hve, become a l i v e = ON2^ alive = cycune become, c o m e i n t o existence yivecrGai (yoon^ be, dwell, exist Eivai 2ice b e c o m e tired, labor = KOTliaV 20ce* tired KOTtldv (c) Acquisition of a quality. oYBAcy become white = >.euK6(; yiveciOai oyoB^t white cyooye b e c o m e dry = ^ripaivEcrOai cyoycuoy^ dry 2CUN 6 2 0 Y N draw near = tyyi(,civ 2HN^ e20YN near = iyyvc, no infinitive 200Y* bad, evil = KOVTlpOq A l l t h e s e v e r b s o c c u r m o r e t h a n fifty t i m e s i n t h e N e w T e s t a m e n t a n d m u s t b e leamed thoroughly. 70. Adjectival meaning of statives. Many s t a t i v e s have the meaning of English a d j e c t i v e s , a s t h e list in 69 w e l l d e m o n s t r a t e s ( i s full , is easy, is ready, is happy, is p u r e , i s g l o r i o u s , i s c o r r a p t , i s s o l i d , i s d e a d , i s w h i t e , is dry, etc.). In fact Coptic has several different w a y s to express adjectival m e a n i n g : (a) The a d j e c t i v e a s s u c h 35. Zxu K i - n o N H p o c = wicked j u d g e m e n t OYnoNHpoc n e - It i s wicked q - o hi-^noNHpoc = It i s wicked 82 (b) The n o u n in c e r t a i n c o n s t m c t i o n s. ZXTj N - N O Y T e = divine j u d g e m e n t 36 OYN O Y T e n e = It i s divine 38 q - o N-^NOYTe = It i s divine 82 73  LESSON NINE ( c ) The S t a t i v e i n a d u r a t i v e s e n t e n c e 66. q - M e 2 = It is full id) Later o n (101) y o u w i l l l e a m a f o u r t h w a y , called t h e v e r b o i d. NANoy-q = It is good In 130 you will leam how a stative or verboid, attached by a relative converter, can modify a noun: T T t o A i c eT^'-OY^AB = the holy city (the-city that-is-holy) TecgiMe e T - N A N o y - c - the good woman (the-woman who-is-good) 71. The comparative of adjectival meaning [CG 951 is expressed by adding an appropriate preposition of comparison such as e - , e p o s than or by the simple def- inite article in a context that makes things clear. nKoyV e p o - q = the one who is lesser than he (small with regard to him) Acy n e n N o 6. n N o y B n e J c U - n e p n e n e = Which is greater? Is it gold or is it the temple? T e T N - c y o B e e-z^z = You are more valuable (stative) than many The superlative is expressed by a possessive article ( n e y - , x e y - , N e y ) or by the simple definite article in a context that makes things clear. neyNo6 = the greatest of them [their-great-one] xu) n e n N o 6 N g H T - o y = Which is the greatest among them? n g A A o = the Eldest (administrative title in monastery) 72. Direct objects. [CG 166] The infinitive of verbs of action-being-done-to-some- one (called transitive verbs) can be followed by an expression of the receiver or goal of the action, which we call a direct object of the verb. With very many infinitives, the signal of a direct object is the preposition N - , M M O S. q-BCDA M M O - c - he releases her q-BcuA F ? M o - o y eBOA = he destroys them f - N A - e i p e rJ-NaLi' = I shall do these things q - K c u e B O A M - n e q c o N = he forgives his brother f - K c u KiMo-q e B O A = I forgive him But for some infinitives, the signal of direct object is a some other preposition. q-cyiN6 NCA-neipcoMe = he is seeking this man t - c y i N e N c c u - q = I am seeking him 74  INGRESSIVE MEANING ce-Nxy e-rnoAic = they see the city K - N A Y epo-c = you see it In negations, negative A N can come either before or after a direct object. N-f-NA-eipe A N N - N A V I shall not do these things N - f - N A - e i p e hi-NAi A N rJ-t-NA-eipe A N M M O - O Y I shall not do them N - f - N A - e i p e MMO-oy A N N-t-cyiNe A N NCcu-q I am not seeking him N--t--qjiNe NCCU-q A N As you leam each transitive infinitive, it is important to leam which preposition(s) mark its direct object ( " e i p e N - / K I M O = d o " ; " c y m e N C A - seek"). This informa- tion will be given in subsequent vocabulary lists. Of course, transitive infinitives can also be used without any expression of a direct object. ICG 169] ce-.xcu T A P AYtu N - c e - e i p e A N = They say and they do not do Infinitives that can never occur with a direct object ( M O Y = die, O Y B A O J = become white) are called intransidves. 73. Additional predicate after the direct object. Depending on the meaning of the infinitive, a direct object may be followed by an additional predication (second direct object). [CG 178] (Such are verbs meaning make, send, consider, appoint, call, see, etc.) The additional predication can be i. N - plus noun or adjective (typically without article), q - e i p e P I M O - O Y Nj-®2M2AA. = He makes them slaves. ii. Preposition or conjunction plus noun or adjective. c e - : x i K i M O - q z c u c - ' ^ n p o - (j)HTHC = They hold him to be a prophet ("as prophet"). iii. Completive circumstantial, which you will leam about in lesson 15. C C - N A Y e p o - q e q - B H K = They see him leaving. 74. Ingressive meaning of transitives. [CG 174] Finally, you should know that in principle, any transitive infinitive, without direct object, can also express the process entering into a state. This is called the "ingressive" meaning (entering-into). BCUA.(release), ingressive sense = become free BCUA e B O A(destroy), ingr. = go to min KCUT (build), ingr. = get built hiTON (cause to rest), ingr. = become refreshed, get rested The ingressive meaning is common only with certain infinitives. 75  LESSON NINE Construct participles (the participium coniunctum, p.c.) [CG 122] A small number of Egyptian-Coptic verbs also have an adjectival form called the construct participle, which expresses general tenseless action or process, some- thing like an English participle. Construct participles end in a hyphen, and must be completed by an article phrase, usually with zero article. Their only use is to form compound adjectives; they have no other purpose. The usual abbreviation is " p. c ". Me to love, p.c. M A I ' - loving, M A i - * N O Y T e pious (God loving), M A i - q ^ M M O hospitable (loving strangers), etc. x\ce to raise, p.c. xxc\- raising, J C A C I - ' ' 2 H T arrogant (mind raising) 2 A o 6 to be(come) sweet, p.c. 2 A. A S - being sweet, 2 A A 5 - ' ' q p A J c e (sweet with words) Construct participles contain the vowel A after the first consonant of the infini- tive; in some, i - appears at the end ( M e to love, M A V - loving). The three verbal preextensions are prefixed to an infinitive or a stative to alter its lexical meaning as though modified by an adverb. [CG 183] pnKe- = also, additionally, moreover, even l'q;pn(N)- = first, before hand, previously P 2 0 Y e - more, even more, greatly Thus; qjAOce = speak. p n i c e - u ^ A J c e = also speak, even speak. p c y p n ( f ) ) - q j A J c e = speak first, previously speak. pi'oye.-o)xx€. = speak more, speak greatly. Verbal auxiliaries. Somewhat like the future auxiliary N A - 63 the following ver- bal auxiliaries can be conjugated as verbs and have another infinitive directly suffixed. [CG 184] M e p e - like to o y e u ; - want to n 2 N - for once..., succeed in... T A u ; e - frequently, greatly O Y e 2 M - again q j - or e q j - be able to j c n i - or j c n e - have to, must q-Mepe-oycuM = He likes to eat q - N A - J t n i - e i = He will have to come. NNeq-cy-BOJK = He shall not be able to go, hut N N e - c y - A A A y B C U K. = None shall be able to go ( c y - occurs after a personal subject such as q but before a non-personal subject such as A A A y ). 76 VOCABULARY 9 Leam the personal subject prefixes 63. Leam the matching infinitive and stative of each of the verbs listed above. Try to get to the point where if you see the infinitive you can give the stative, and if you see the stative you can give the infinitive. (We shall retum to these verbs in smaller groups in succeeding vocabulary lists.) Verbs that have a stative Moy, MooyT die (dead^) dJtoOvricKF.iv (ve- Kpoq*) TAeiO N - / M M O S , honor (honored^) Tijidv (evu\io.6i; fem.) KCU e B O A ( K A. - , K A A S ) release, loosen; forgive d the one whose house the man built T-eNT-A-nptoMe K C O T M-nHi N A - C the one + converter + the man built the house for her J whom the one + ^converter + the man built the house ffon —> the one for whom the man built the house n-fne e N T - A - n p c u M e K C O T Fi-necHi NgHT-q the town + converter + the man built her house in it ^ tofiicfi the town + converter + the man built her house (in) K the town in which the man built her house Thus in the five examples above. Ml  LESSON SIXTEEN i. The Coptic converter has been replaced by who, that, whose, whom, and which ii. The redundant Coptic pronouns meaning he, it, her, her, and it have been ignored iii. In the third, fourth, and fifth examples, house, for, and in have been moved to make normal sounding English*'. Notice that the Coptic definite article ( n - , T - , N - ) "the o n e... " is an antecedent in examples three and four. (As an antecedent, N - never has a superlinear stroke.) When the antecedent expresses time or manner {the days, the year, a year, the way), optionally in step (2) there may be no redundant personal pronoun to delete. [CG 407] the year + converter + he built her house TepoMne + eNT- + Aq-KCUT M - n e c H i ' Thus n e z o o Y eNT-Ay-ANAAAMBANe MMo-q - the day (when) He was taken up. KATA-ee eNT-AN-cojTTi = in the way (that) we have heard. N e e O N e p e - n A p x i e p e y c p-^MNTpe N A - T = just as also the high priest vouches for me. 126. Let's do a quick exercise now. Translate these four relative constructions into good, normal English. The converter here is always E N T -. Coptic: Tec2iMe eNT-AC-2e e-neq20MNT Coptic form: the woman + e N T - + she found his money English: Coptic: neq20MNT eNT-A-Tec2iMe 2e epo-q Coptic form: his money + em- + the woman found it English: Coptic: n - e N T - A - T e c 2 i M e 2e e-nec[20MNT Coptic form: the one + E N T - + the woman found his money English: Coptic: nHi e N T - A - T e c 2 i M e 2 e e - n e q 2 0 M N T N2HT-£ Coptic form: the house + E N T - + the woman found his money in it English: In colloquial E n g l i s h , / o r and in can be left where they are. 142  THE RELATIVE CONVERSION 127. The choice of converter varies according to the antecedent. [CG 404] After a definite a n t e c e d e n t ( o n e that c o n t a i n s n... , T... , or N... 60) a relative c o n v e r t e r is u s e d. npcuMe (neipcuMe, neNpcDMe) e N T - ^ q - i c c u T M - n e c H i ' the m a n w h o built her h o u s e After a non-definite antecedent (with indefinite or z e r o article) a circumstantial con- verter m u s t b e u s e d i n s t e a d o f t h e relative c o n v e r t e r. o Y p t u M e e - A q - K t u T T i - n e c H i ( e - is circumstantial converter) a m a n w h o built her h o u s e *pcuMe e - A q - K C U T ( o r e - A y - K C U T ) T i - n e c H V s o m e o n e / p e o p l e w h o built her h o u s e Antecedents constructed with... N I M any, every or with specifiers such as 2 ^ 2 N - many can be followed by either circumstantial or relative, optionally. When the antecedent expresses time or maimer and is definite {the days, the way), either circumstantial or relative can be used. n e 2 0 0 Y e T e p e - N ^ T N A - c y c u n e = The day (when) these things will come to pass. N e 2 o o Y e N - 2 N - T C A p 5 = The days (when) we were in the flesh. 128. The relative conversion is formed in the same way as the preterit and cir- cumstantial. There are several shapes of the relative converter, most of which we will study in the next lesson. For now, you will leam only the conversion base e T e p e - , e T s (present tense) the sentence converter of the past tense affirmative C N T - , also spelled N T - Remember that a conversion base (eTepe-, es) is only used to convert durative sentences 112 (i). 129. Conjugation of the convention base eTs. ef- (et-i-) eTN- eTic- eTBTig- eTe- or eTepe- eTq- eTOY- eTc- BTepe-nNOYTe 143  EXERCISES 16 A. Review vocabularies 2-4. B. Analyze and translate, giving alternate translations where possible. a. n q j H p e a^HM e N T - A - T e c g m e NAY epo-q b. Tcyeepe U ^ H M e N T - A - r e c ^ i M e NAY e p o - c c. Ncynpe cyHM e N T - A - T e c 2 i M e N A Y epo-OY d. nepne C N T - A C - N A Y epo-q e. TnoAic CNT-Ac-NAY e p o - c f. N H IC N T - A q - N A Y epo-OY g. N H V e r q - N A Y epo-oy h. NHT ercTN-NAy epo-oy i. N H T eTepe-Tec2iMe NAy e p o - o y j. Tec2iMe C N T - A C - N A y e-rnoAic k. Tec2iMe C N T - A C - N A Y epo-q 1. Tec2iMe C N T - A q - N A y e p o - c m. T e c 2 r M e C N T - A C - N A Y e p o - c (this has t w o interpretations) n. npeq-p-'^NOBe c N T - A q - N A y e-NeqNose ( t w o interpretations) o. TnoAic CNT-Aq-NAy epo-oy N2HT-C p. TnoAic C N T - A q - N A y e p o - c N 2 H T - C ( t w o interpretations) q. n e p n e C N T - A C - N A Y e p o - o y N2^''''""'i r. nepne C N T - A C - N A Y e p o - q N2HT-q ( t w o interpretations) s. n A i C N T - A q - N A y e p o - q N2HT-q (three interpretations) t. NAI e T C - N A y e p o - c N 2 H T - C ( t w o interpretations) u. nNoyTC CNT-AN-NAy e-NcqpnHye V. Nepnnye CNT-AN-NAy e-neyNoyTe B. Repeat (I) to (22) as a rapid drill: a. n c y n p e U ^ H M eNT-A-Tec2iMe N A y e p o - q. b. T c y e e p e c y n n e N T - A - T C C 2 i M C N A y e p o - c. c. N c y n p e cyHM e N T - A - T e c 2 i M e N A Y e p o - o y. d. n e p n e C N T - A C - N A Y e p o - q. e. TnoAic eNT-Ac-NAy epo-c. f. FJHI CNT-Aq-NAy epo-oy. g. N H V C T q - N A y e p o - o y. h. N H T C T C T N - N A Y e p o - o y. i. N H I eTepe-Tec2iMe 144  EXERCISES SIXTEEN NAY e p o - O Y - j. T e c ^ i M e C N T - A C - N A Y e - T n o A i c. k. T C C Z I M C C N T - A C - N A Y epo-q. 1. T e c 2 i M e C N T - A q - N A Y e p o - c. m. T e c 2 i M e C N T - A C - N A Y e p o - c (this h a s t w o i n t e r p r e t a t i o n s ) , n. n p c q - p - ^ N O B C C N T - A q - N A Y c - N c q N O B C ( t w o interpretations), o. T n o A i c C N T - A q - NAY e p o - O Y N 2 H T - C. p. T n o A i c C N T - A q - N A Y e p o - c N2HT-C (two interpretations), q. n e p n e C N T - A C - N A Y e p o - o y N2H'''-q. r. n e p n e C N T - A C - N A Y N 2 H T - q ( t w o interpretations), s. n A i c N T - A q - N A y e p o - q cpo-q (three interpretations), t. N A T C T C - N A Y e p o - c N 2 H T - C N2HT-q (two interpretations), u. n N o y T e C N T - A N - N A Y e - N c q p n H y e. v. N c p - nnye C N T - A N - N A Y c-ncyNoyTC. D. Translate into Coptic, using the relative or circumstantial conversion, as appropriate. Example: the angel w h o c a m e from heaven = " t h e angel modified-by-the- complete-statement he came from heaven" = n A r r c A o c C N T - A q - e i C B O A 2N-Tne a. An angel w h o c a m e from heaven h. T h e w o m a n w h o k n e w G o d c. A w o m a n w h o k n e w G o d d. T h e apostles w h o loved their Lord e. Apostles w h o loved their Lord /. T h e things that I see, those which I s e e , the things that y o u (sing, masc.) see, those which y o u (sing, masc.) see, the things that y o u (sing, fem.) see, the things that h e sees, the things that she sees, the things that w e s e e , the things that you (pi.) see, the things that they see g. Things that I see, s o m e that I see, things that y o u (sing, masc.) s e e , s o m e that you (sing, masc.) see, things that y o u (sing, fem.) see, things that h e sees, things that she sees, things that w e see, things that y o u (pi.) see, things that they see h. T h e things that G o d sees, those which G o d sees /. Things that G o d sees, s o m e that G o d sees j. T h e road on which I have travelled, the road o n which y o u (sing, masc.) have travelled, the road on which y o u (sing, fem.) h a v e travelled, t h e road o n which he has travelled, the road o n which she h a s travelled, the road o n which w e have travelled, the road on which y o u (pi.) have travelled, the road on which they have travelled, the road on which the m a n has travelled k. A road on which I have travelled, a road o n which y o u (sing, masc.) have travelled, a road on which you (sing, fem.) have travelled, a road o n w h i c h 145  LESSON SIXTEEN h e has travelled, a road on which she has travelled, a road on which we have travelled, a road on which you (pi.) h a v e travelled, a road on which they have travelled, a road on which the m a n has travelled /. T h e city w h o s e king I saw, the city w h o s e king you (sing, masc.) saw, the city w h o s e king you (sing, fem.) saw, the city w h o s e king he saw, the city w h o s e king she saw, the city w h o s e king we saw, the city whose king you (pi.) saw, the city w h o s e king they saw m. A city w h o s e king I saw, a city w h o s e king you (sing, masc.) saw, a city w h o s e king you (sing, fem.) saw, a city whose king he saw, the city whose king she saw, a city w h o s e king we saw, a city w h o s e king you (pi.) saw, a city w h o s e king they saw 146 LESSON 17 RELATIVE C O N V E R S I O N ( C O N T I N U E D ). 130. "BareeT." [CG 405J In present tense affirmative relative clauses, e r q - , e r e - , and e T o y - are always replaced by simple e r - if their personal pronoun ( - q , - c , - o y ) would refer to the antecedent. This will be notated as G T * - , and called "bare e r ". the man who listens n p c u n e e T ^ - c c u T h i (not e r q - ) the woman who listens T e c g m e eT^-ccoTM (not e r e - ) the apostles who listen hiAnocTOA.oc BT'^-CWTM (not e T o y - ) Optionally, this construction can be negatived by A N after the predicate. the man who does not listen npcuMe BT'^-CWTM A N the woman who does not listen recziMe eT^-ccuTSi A N the apostles who do not listen T i A n o c T O A O C er^-ccuTM A N The alternative negation is npcuMe ere-N-q-ccoTM A N , receiMe e r e - N-C-CCDTM AN, NAnOCTOAOC E T e - N - C e - C t U T T l A N. All the predicates of the durative sentence (63) can occur after e r " - : H A I C O N E T ® - N H y = the age to come, the age that is coming. T o p p H e r ^ - N A - b c u A n E B O A = the wrath that is going to appear, H E T N E I C U T E T ® - 2 N - M n H y E = your Father who is in the heavens. The commonest occurrence of bare E T is found in the phrases erMMxy (= that) and n E T M M A y , T E T h i M A y , N E T M M A y (= that one, he, she, it, they) 60. T H O A I C E T h i M A y = that city. U p p c o o y E T K i M A y = those emperors. n E T M M A y = he, that one. Adjectival meaning. When the predicate is a stative expressing a quality, such as o y A A B is holy, the meaning is like a modifying adjective: T n o A i c E T * - o y A A B = the holy city; n - e T ^ - c H b = the lame man; n N o y T E E T ^ - J C O C E = the high(est) God; N - E T ^ - M o o y T = the dead. Cf. 70. 147  LESSON SEVENTEEN THE S E N T E N C E CONVERTER FOR R E L A T I V E C O N V E R S I O N 131. The relative sentence converter has four forms (identical in meaning), cho- sen to match the grammar of the relative clause. [CG 399] You've already leamed one of these: E N T - , also spelled N T -. They are: E N T - (also spelled N T - * ^ ) used only before x - , A S (affirmative past) E T - used before verboids when the subject pronoun refers to the antecedent*^ E T E - used before all other sentence types E - optionally used instead of E T E - before q j A p E - , q j A = , N e p e - , and N e s Relative conversions are fairly easy to recognize, since almost every one begins with e T , e T E - , E N T , or N T. Generally speaking, the relative is formed in the same way as the preterit (cf. 1 1 2 ). [CG 396] (Note that there is a relative conversion of the preterit.) ETe-oYnpoHTHC n e eTe-OYnpo(t)HTHC A N ne eTe-N-OYnpo Imperative. j c i - = xe- utter, say, speak about. The prenominal form xi- occurs before zero article; otherwise xe- is used. CTAYpoy crucify. 153 LESSON 18 FOCALIZING CONVERSION. 136. Like the preterit, the focalizing conversion forms a complete sentence. It tells the reader that the converted sentence contains (somewhere) a high point of interest that the reader should select and emphasize. M n c - M o y xwx ec-NKoric She has not died; rather, she is sleeping Thus its use is a rhetorical strategy—it is a sort of not-very-specific stage direction to the reader—and so it typically occurs in literary writing but not in private letters and business documents. [CG 444-59] 137. Focalizing Converters. [CG 444] Focalization is marked by the following converters: conversion base e p e - , e« sentence converter N T - before past tense e - before other sentence types e r e - forming some negations 139 Note that e p e - , e s , and e - are also circumstantial converters, and N T - is also an optional spelling of the relative converter e N T - 131. The focalizing conversion is formed in the same way as the preterit. (Note that there is a focalizing conversion of the preterit.) e p e - n p a ) M e ccuTrr eq-CCUTTT NT-Aq-CCUTfi e-cyAq-ccuTTT e-NANoy-q e-oyN-'pcuMe CCUTTT e - M t J - ^ p C U M e CCUTTT e-Neq-ccuTTT Etc". There is no focahzing conversion of the nominal sentence. Of the non-durative conjugations, 154  THE FOCALIZING CONVERSION Negation adds A N after the predicate (except for oyN-/MTi-). epe-npcuME CCOTTT A N eq-CCOTTT AN NT-Aq-CCUTTT AN (sic) 6 - c y A q - C C U T T T AN (Note the negation of NT-Aq- and e - c y A q - with A N. ) Optionally the durative can be negatived by N -... A N and NN-... A N , with N - or N N - prefixed to the conversion base. epe-npcoMC CCUTTT A N and h i ( N ) - e p e - n p c o M e CCOTTT A N e q - C C O T T T AN and N(N)-eq-ccoTn A N For another kind of negation (formed with BTC-), cf. 139. To convert a sentence formed with O Y N - , it is possible to substitute the prenominal base e p e - in place of o y N - : OYN-^pcuMe CCOTTT 6pe-''pa)Me CCOTTT Conjugation ofttie conversion base e p e - , e s. ei- CN- eic- CTeTrJ- epe- eq- e y - ec- epe-nNoyTe THE MEANING OF FOCALIZING CONVERSION 138. A focalizing converter signals that the reader should choose to understand some part of the converted sentence as a "focal point"—i.e. a point of special emphasis or attention. [CG 445-51] But the conversion does not tell where the focal point is located. Almost any part of speech is eligible to be a focal point. And so, the selection of a focal point must be made by the reader, in view of the overall flow of the argument on that page of text. Even when the train of thought seems clear, several different performances of a focalizing conversion may seem justified. only the past and the aoiist have a focalizing conversion. Note also that in ancient manuscripts, the converter N T - is sometimes erroneously written e N T -. 155  LESSON EIGHTEEN Focalizing verbal constructions were used in earlier stages of the Egyptian lan- guage. In these much earlier stages, scholars have theorized that the location of the focal point is regular and predictable. But in any case, this is no longer true when we get to the Coptic stage of Egyptian. Let's look at a few examples of focalizing conversions set in their context, in order to understand how the choice of focal point can be suggested by the surrounding text. In each example, my own choice of focal point is given in a footnote; but as a fellow reader you are entitled to choose some other place to put the focal point if it seems better. I have slightly condensed the passages. i. Mary Magdalene came to the tomb (of Jesus) while it was dark and saw that the stone had been removed from its entrance. She ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple; they were coming to the tomb. The other disciple went in, looked, and had faith. Mary Magdalene was sitting outside the tomb weeping. Weeping, she turned and saw Jesus standing there. Jesus said to her, Mariam! She said, Rabbouni! Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples, I have seen the Lord! When it was evening and the doors were secured Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them. Peace be unto you! Jesus did many other miracles in the presence of His disciples, M N N C A - N A I O N A - T C O Y O N 2 - q e - N e q M A O H - THc 2i-XN-TeeAAACcjL N-TiBepiAC. N T - A q - o Y O N 2 - q Ae esoA uTei^e (Afterwards, again Jesus revealed Himself to His disciples—by Lake Tiberias. And He revealed Himself as follows'"). They were gathered together, Simon Peter said to them, I'm going fishing. They came out and entered the boat. And after sunrise, Jesus stood on the bank. But the disciples did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to them. You boys here, do you have any fish with you? (John 20:1-21:5) ii. (From a letter that Paul is writing to the church in Corinth) One who "speaks in a tongue" (speaks ecstatic nonsense) speaks not to human beings but to God, for no person listens to him. The one who speaks in tongues edifies only him- self. Speaking prophetic sayings is better than speaking in tongues. Listen, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues how will I be of any use to you? If a bugle makes a funny sound, who's going to get ready for battle? Likewise, if you don't produce clear speech, how will people understand what you're say- ing? Suppose the whole church gathers and they all speak in tongues, and then some simple folk or unbelievers come by. Wouldn't they say that e T e T r J - A o s e ^ (You're crazy!''). But if they are all uttering prophetic sayings and an My choice of focal point: as follows. My choice of focal point: really crazy. 156  THE FOCALIZING CONVERSION unbeliever or a simple person comes by, they will be convinced by all. (1 Cor 14:2-24) iii. John (the Baptist) replied. It is not I who am the Christ. He (the Christ) must rise, and I must sink: one who has come from heaven is superior to all; one who is from the earth is earthly xyw eq-qjAJce e e o A Z^-TIKX^ (and speaks from the earth'*). Now, the One who has come from heaven is testifying to what He has seen and heard. And no one accepts His testimony. Yet He has sealed the One who has accepted His testimony, for God is truthful. Indeed, the One whom God has sent e q - : x a ) N-fiqjAJce h T - n N o y T e (speaks the words of God'^). N - e p e - n N o y T e r ^ p A N M - n e n N A j N - o y q p i (For, God does not give the spirit in a limited way'*): the Father loves the Son and has put all things into His hands. (John 3:27-35) iv. The kinsmen of the synagogue leader came and told him. Your daughter has died. But Jesus said. Fear not! Just have faith. And they went to the leader's house, and He saw that they were distraught and weeping. But when He had entered He said to them. Why are you distraught and weeping over the girl? h i n c - M o y. A A A A e c - N K O T i c (She has not died; rather, she is sleeping"). They laughed at Him. But He took the girl's hand and said to her, Taleitha Koum. And immediately the girl got up and walked. (Mark 5 : 3 5 ^ 2 ) v. They took Jesus from Kaiphas to the praetorium. And Pilate came out. Then Pilate went back into the praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, You are the King of the Jews? — Jesus answered, eK-Jccu M - n A i g ^ p o - K M A y A A - K (Are you saying this as your own opinion'"^) or is i t other people who have talked to you about Me? — Pilate replied. Excuse me, am I supposed to be a Jew? It's Your people and the high priests who put You into my cus- tody. — Jesus responded: Personally speaking. My kingdom is not from this world. (John 18:28-36) In form, the focalizing converters are identical with those of the circumstantial/rela- tive ( e p e - , e s , e - , NT-, CNT-, e T e - ) , and this is a potential source of confusion. However, because the focalizing conversion is by definition a complete sentence i t can be distinguished from the circumstantial and relative (which are not)"". The focalizing is relatively rare compared to the circumstantial and relative. * My choice of focal point: uncertain, maybe from the earth or spealcs. " My choice of focal point: uncertain, maybe spealcs, or God. My choice of focal point: in a limited way. My choice of focal point: is sleeping. 100 gjiQijg of focal point: as your own opinion. "" A circumstantial conversion of the focalizing conversion exists, and it is rare, being mostly confined to the elaborate rhetoric of Shenoute: e - e p e - , e - e = , and e - N T - (unfortunately, some- times simplified to e p e - , e=, n t - ). 157  LESSON EIGHTEEN 139. Negations. [CG 452-53] In English we can sometimes translate the focalizing conversion by It is/was... that..., dividing the meaning into two parts. Thus: "It was in the following way I that He revealed Himself" — "It is the words of God I that He speaks"; etc. This cumbersome English construction points to the existence of two logical forms of negation, depending on which part is negatived. Coptic carefully distinguishes these two forms. Form (i) is much more common. i. It was not in the following way I that He revealed Himself. ii. It was in the following way I that He did not reveal Himself. i. It is not the words of God I that He speaks. ii. It is the words of God I that He does not speak. In Coptic, form (i) is expressed by the negations noted in 137. Form (ii) is expressed by prefixing the sentence converter e T e - to an already negatived basic sentence pat- tem. Thus (i) N T - A q - O Y O N 2 - q A N eBOA. NTeige It was not in the following way that He revealed Himself (ii) e T e - i 5 n q - O Y O N 2 - q eBOA. NTei2e It was in the following way that He did not reveal Himself (i) eq-j n - e T ^ - O Y c u M e q - O Y C O M M- nxoe\c... AYtu n - e T e - N - q - o y t u M A N e T e - N - q - o y t u M A N M - n J c o e i c. Romans 1 4 : 2 - 6 C. Translate rapidly into Coptic, using the focalizing conversion. I am revealing myself in this way You (sing, masc.) are... You (sing, fem.) are... He is... She is... We are... You (pi.) are... They are... D. Translate rapidly into Coptic, using the focalizing conversion and giving alternate forms where possible. It is not in this way that I am revealing myself you (sing, masc.) are... you (sing, fem.) are... he is... she is... we are... you (pi.) are... they are... N K O T K fall asleep, be asleep. KCOTe N C A - seach for, seek. T O o y N cause to arise. 762  EXERCISKS EIGHTEEN E. Translate rapidly into Coptic, using the focalizing conversion. It is in this way that I am not revealing myself you (sing, masc.) are n o t... you (sing, fem.) are n o t... he is n o t... she is n o t... we are n o t... you (pi.) are n o t... they are n o t... F. Translate rapidly into Coptic, using the focalizing conversion. I revealed myself in this way You (sg. masc.) revealed... Etc. etc. G. Translate rapidly into Coptic, using the focalizing conversion. It was not in this way that I revealed myself It was not in this way that you (masc. sing.)... Etc. etc. H. Translate rapidly into Coptic, using the focalizing conversion. It was in this way that I did not reveal myself It was in this way that you (masc. s i n g. )... Etc. etc. 163 LESSON 19 CLEFT SENTENCE. REPORTED DISCOURSE AND THOUGHT. 140. A more precise way to signal focalization is the cleft sentence construction. [CG 461-63] iHcoyc ne-eNT-Aq-TAA6o-i = It is Jesus who healed me TJTtuThi TAP XH ne-eT*-a)A.Jce = For, it is not you who speak ANOK er^-NA-KATHPopi MMCD-TN = It Is / who shall accuse you The focal point always comes first, and it is always an article phrase, independent personal pronoun, or the like. 141. Cleft Sentence Pattern 1. Pattem 1 [CG 464] has two parts. i. A nominal sentence containing ne "It is... , " in which either ne/re/Ne agrees with the preceding focal point TeKniCTic re... It is your faith... (N-)TeKniCTic AN r e... It is not your faith... or n e is frozen in the singular masculine form TeKnicTic ne... It is your faith... (N-)TeKnicTic AN n e... It is not your faith... ii. An attached relative clause, in which a personal pronoun agrees in number/gen- der with the focal point (bare e x 130 also occurs) TeKnlCTIC Te-eNT-AC-NA2M-eK It is your faith that has saved you (N-)TeKnlCTIC AN Te-eNT-AC-NA2M-eK It is not your faith that has saved you TeKniCTIC T e - e N T - A K - N O Y 2 M N2HT-C It is your faith through which you have become saved 164  THE CLEFT SENTENCE ( N - ) T e K n i C T I C AN T e - e N T - A K - N O Y 2 M N2HT-C It is not your faith through which you have become saved T 6 K n i C T i c Te-eT®-NOY2M M M O - K (with bare er) It is your faith that saves you Note that T e (i.e. n e / T e / N e ) and the relative converter ( b n t - , e T * - ) are attached to one another: t b - b n t - , tb-bt*-. 142. Elided forms in Pattern 1. Very often n e (re, n b ) and the attached relative converter elide ( b - b written simply as e ). Elided Form nB-BTq- neTq- nB-BTB- nBTB- ne-BNT- neNT- ne-eT*- neT*- The elided form is quite commonplace, and it looks misleadingly like an articulated relative 132 (i.e. n - B T s , n - B T B - n - B N T - , n - B T * - , etc. = the one who... " ). Thus, when you see a sequence of letters such as... n e T... or... n e N T... or... n B T B... or... n B o j A q... or... n B T q... , you must always remember to ask yourself whether this is an articulated relative or a part of an elided cleft sen- tence. Both are extremely common. For example I H C O Y C nBNTAqTAA6oV means both (i) Jesus, who healed me (articulated relative, m c o y c n - c N T - A q - TAA.60-T) and (ii) It is Jesus who healed me (cleft sentence pattem 1, elided 1 n c o y c n ( e ) - e N T - A q - T A A 6 o - V ). By thinking about the context, you should be able to make the right choice between these two alternatives. And the choice is yours. Much more rarely, Pattem 1 contains a circumstantial clause instead of a rela- tive. i J T o q M A Y A A - q n e e q - A N A X c o p e i 2 M - n M A b t * - m m a y = It is he alone who is living as an anchorite in that place. [CG 470] 143. Pattem 1 can also be used as an opening formula at the beginning of a story, to introduce a character and circumstances: There once was... [CG 465] OYPCUMB N - p M M A O n e N T - A q - T C U 6 e i J - O Y M A N-CAOOAC There once was a rich man who planted a vineyard ("It is a rich man who... ") 165  LESSON NINETEEN 144. Cleft Sentence Pattern 2. Pattem 2 [CG 468] consists of i. An independent personal pronoun ( A N O K , U T O K , etc.) ii. Either G N T - (relative conversion of past affirmative) or e T ® - (bare e T 130) NTOK e N T - A K - T A o y o - V - It is you who have sent me N T O K AN e N T - A V - T A o y o - K = It is not you whom I have sent N T O K eT®-j(.a) M M o - c = It is you who say it (with bare e T ) After e N T - , a personal pronoun will agree in number/gender with the focal point ( H T O K eNT-AK-; N T O K eNT-AI-TAOyO-K.). Note that pattem 2 does not contain n e. Nagation: A N following A N O K (etc.) REPORTED D I S C O U R S E A N D THOUGHT 145. Reported discourse is the content of speaking or thought quoted after a verb of speech or cognition. [CG 509] Reported discourse is mostly introduced by xe~. The most common constmctions are xw M M O - C xe-/xoo-c xe- say (say-it xe-) and n e. x A - q xe- he said ( n e. x e - , n e a c A s 105). Verbs of speaking and cognition [CG 510] include e i M e. x e - know, M e e y e xe- think, N A y xe- see, perceive, n i c T e y e xe- believe, p - ^ M o e i g e xe- be amazed at the fact that, p - n M e e y e xe- remember, C C U T J I xe- hear, leam, c o o y N xe- know, T A M O. X G - tell, o y t o c y i xe~ answer, xw M M O - C xe- say, J C N o y xe- ask, 6 r i - find out, nexe-Znexxs xe- said, etc. 146. Formally speaking, most Coptic questions can't be distinguished from affir- mations 4. [CG511] U T O K n e nppo Ti-ioyAAi = (1) You are the Jewish king, (2) Are You the Jewish king? But some questions can be recognized because they begin with the interrogative ini- tial morphs A p A , C N C - or M H ; or contain an interrogative word ( N I M = who?); or contain a verb meaning "ask" ( j c N o y ). A p A = s o ,... ; pray tell,... M H = is it tme t h a t... ? M H... AN (or MH -I- negated conjugation) = isn't it tme that... ? 147. XU3 M M o - c xe- " s a y " in durative conjugation strictly alternates with. x o o - c xe- in non-durative conjugation. [CG 514] ^-xoi M M O - C xe- I say versus A T - J C O O - C xe- I said In this constmction, - c grammatically points ahead to the xe- clause. It should not be translated in English. 166  REPORTED DISCOURSE AND THOUGHT 148. Indirect and direct discourse are two perspectives that an author can adopt when reporting a speaker's words or thoughts. [CG 519-24] Indirect discourse is a reporter's perspective, as though it were the report of an onlooker. Here is an exam- pie: Aq-cooYN N 6 I - T C Jce-A-TeqoYNOY e' Jesus knew that his hour had come If the author had chosen to report Jesus' words in direct discourse (as though the speaker's exact words) he would have written A q - c o o y N N 6 I - T C xe-x-rxoyuoy ei Jesus knew, "My hour has come" What are the signals of indirect discourse compared to direct discourse? How does the writer compose the speaker's own words (direct discourse) so as to create the effect of indirect discourse? i. Indirect discourse can change the person (e.g. from first to third) Direct: My hour T A O Y N O Y Indirect: His hour T e q o Y N O Y ii. Indirect discourse can change the syntax of a command or request Direct: He said, "Sit down" xq-xoo-c Jce-2Mooc Indirect: He commanded him to sit down, A q - O Y e g - ^ C A e N e e - ^ T p e q - 2MOOC iii. Indirect discourse can change the form of a question about place or manner Direct: He asked, "Where is she staying?" A q - J C N O Y J c e - e c - K H Tixo) M-MX Indirect: He asked where she was staying A q - J C N O Y e-riMx G T C - K H TTMAY Unlike English, Coptic does not shift the tense of indirect discourse. Instead, indi- rect discourse has the same tense as the equivalent direct discourse. Here English and Coptic diverge, when talking about the past. Direct: xq-xoo-c xe-f-iywne He said, " I am sick" Indirect: xq-xoo-c J c e - q - c y c u N e He said that he was sick (English signals indirect discourse by shifting the tense to was, but Coptic literally has "He said that he is sick") Direct: x(\-xoo-c xe-xi-^yiVNe He said, "I was sick" Indirect: xq-xoo-c J c e - A q - t y o j N e He said that he had been sick 167 EXERCISES 19 A. Review vocabularies 12-13. B. Take the following sentence as a basis: He will give you a book. q-NaL-t N H - T N N-oy-XcucuMe. Translate into Coptic using the cleft sentence construction and giving alter- nate forms where possible. 1. It is he ( N T o q ) w h o will give you a book. 2. It is you (pi. N T C U T N ) to w h o m he will give a book. 3. It is a book that he will give to you. 4. It is not h e w h o will give you a book. 5. It is not you (pi.) to w h o m h e will give a book. 6. It is not a b o o k that he will give to you. C. Reading selections from the New Testament. 1. N I M neT^-NA-qj-KA-^NOBe E B O A NCA-nNoyTe MAy^A-q. Mark 2:7 2. Aup PAp n e T ^ - M O T N ' ^ " e - ^ j c o o - c. Mark 2 : 9 3. NAI 2 t u - o y N E N T - A y - J c o - o y ' ^ ' 2 I - X N - M M A M-neTpA'^^. Mark 4 : 1 6 4. T A o p e e p e T o y n i c T i c TeNT-AC-NA2M-e'". Mark 5 : 3 4 5. o y neTepe-npcoMe NA-TAA-q N-^ajBBia)'^" 2 ^ - ' ' ' ' e i S ' Y ' ' " - Mark 8:37 6. He rebuked the unclean spirit saying nenNA... A N O K ne-eT**- oye2-''cA2Ne N A - K Jce-AMoy (87 fbox]) C B O A MMo-q. Mark 9:25 7. NIM n e - N T - A q - " } " N A - K N - T e i e s o y c i A J C C K A C eKe-p-NAi. Mark 11:28 ™ M O T N e - be easier than ( M T O N to become rested, rest; stative M O T N be easy, be peaceful). j c o , j c e - , x o = to sow (seed). '^^ n e T p A rock. NOY2M to save. N - ' u j B B i o ) 2 A - as payment for, in retum for. 168  EXERCISES NINETEEN 8. o y n e T e p e - n J c o e i c M-TTMX N-eAOOAe'^' NA-AA-q. Mark 12:9 9. N T C U T N rxp XN N S T ^ - c y A x s xwx nenNA n e eT^'-oyAAB. Mark 13:11 10. Ay-p-nMeeye N6i-NeqMAeHTHc Jce-nAr neNeq-Jccu MMo-q. John 2 : 2 2 11. T C AN n e N c q - B A n T i ^ e A A A A NeqMAeHTHC Ne. John 4 : 2 12. A N O K c T ^ - N A - K A T H r c u p c i ' ^ * T i M c u - T N N N A ^ p M - n e i c u T. J o h n 5 : 4 5 13. cTBe-nAT nAcicuT Me M M O - T J C C - ' I ' - N A - K C U N - T A ^ ' Y X H J C C K A C ON e T e - J c i T - c. M f J - A A A y q i M M O - C N T O O T - *. A A A A A N O K C T ^ - K C U M M O - C 2 A p o - T MAyAAT-®. John 10:17—18 14. A N O K G T ^ ' - c o o y N T T - N - 6 N T - A i - c o T n - o y. John 1 3 : 1 8 15. M H T J T O K C - N A A - K e-ncNcicuT I A K C U B. John 4 : 1 2 16. MH TT-nAT AN n e Tc n c y n p e T4-ICUCH(|). John 6 : 4 2 D. Cleft sentences that begin with an extraposited word or phrase (98). 1. T i A p x i c p e y c , TjTooy N C N T - a y - T A A - K C T O O T - ®. o y ncT-AK- A A - q. John 18:35 2. nqjAJte c N T - A i - j c o o - q , TjToq neT^'-NA-Kprne MMO-q 2M-rr2Ae T T - 2 o o y. John 1 2 : 4 8 3. Ne2BHye A N O K e't--eipe MMO-oy 2M-npAN M-nAeicuT, N A T N C T ^ - P - ^ M T T T P C C T B H H T - ®. John 1 0 : 2 5 4. N-CT^-NHy CBOA 2M-rfpcuMC, T i T o o y NeT''-Jccu2M'^^ TT-npcuMe. Mark 7 : 1 5 5. A N O K , N - C N T - A I - N A y e p O - O y T T T M - n A C I C U T N C t ' - J C C U TiMo-oy. John 8 : 3 8 MA N - e A O O A e vineyard (place of grapes). '^^ K A T H r o p e i accuse. xujz^i defile, pollute. 169 LESSON 20 CONDITIONAL SENTENCES. P U R P O S E A N D RESULT. CORRELATED COMPARISON. 149. Coptic conditional sentences {if... then... ) talk about reality in three ways, which we shall study in turn. [CG 494-50IJ Presupposed or possible fact: If or since X is or may he true, then Y is true. Generalization: If (or whenever) X is true, Y is for will be) true. Contrary to fact: IfX were true, then Y would he true. There are also past tense versions of these three (Since X was true. Whenever X was true. If X had been true). The order of the / / a n d Then clauses can be reversed at will (Y is true since X is true, Y is true if X is true, Y would be true if X were true). 150. (a) Presupposed or Possible Fact. [CG 4951 The //clause is introduced by enei, eneiAH, eneiAHnep since, inasmuch as e c y j c e - or e u j j c n e - since, if (as seems to he, or may he, the case) KXH, K A N e u j j c e - even if xe-, J c e - e n e i A H , xe-... r A p , G B O A xe-, e T B e - J c e - because and the Then clause is a main clause or imperative. ecyjce-ATeTiJ-coYCUN-T, TeTNA-coYN-nAKeeituT Since you have known Me, you will know My Father, too e c y j t e - N T O K n e n c y n p e T i - n N O Y T e , N O X - K e n e c H T 2iJcTi-neeiMA If (as You claim) You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here eneiAH AK-cycune eK-Ngor n-zeHKoyi, "t—NA-KAeicTA T I M O - K eJCN- 2A2 Since you have been faithful with a few things, I shall put you in charge of many 770  CONDITIONAL SENTENCES 151. (h) Generalization. [CG 496| The / / clause is introduced by ecycune if ever, if+ main clause, circumstantial, or e p c y a i N - K A N even if+ N T B - (conjunctive) or e p q j A N - The Then clause is a main clause. ecycune A e n e K B A A O Y n o N H p o c n e , neicccuMA T H p - q N A - u ; c u n e eq-o N-*KAKe And if your eye is bad then your whole body will be dark ecycune A e e p u j A N - n e K C O N j'-^NOBe, BCUK. Nr-Jcnio-q And if ever your brother sins, go and censure him K A N eTeTNcyAN-Jcoo-c M - n e i T o o y J c e - T c u o y N N P - B C U K egpAi' e-Te- eAAACCA, c - N A - c y c u n e N H - T N Even if you say to this mountain. Arise and go into the sea, it will come to pass for you When the //clause is simply e q c y A N - or a circumstantial, not preceded by a conjunction, the distinction between types (1) and (2) is lost. e T e T N - n i c T e y e T e T N A - x i T - o y = Since or If or Whenever you have faith, you will receive them. [CH 497] 152. (c) Contrary to Fact. The //clause cannot be fulfilled or can no longer be fulfilled. [CG 498-99] i. Present tense contrary to fact //clause (if... were...): circumstantial preterit e - N e p e - , e - N e - Then clause (... would)^^^: Nepe-... N A - durative sentences N e - other sentence types e - N e T e T N - n i c T e y e rAp e - M c u y c H C , N e T e T N A - n i c T e y e e p o - T n e For if you were believers in Moses, you would believe in Me e-Ne-M-nAi p-neeooy A N , NeN-NA-TAA-q A N E T O O T - I C If this Man were not an evildoer, we would not be handing Him over to you e - N e - n p p o neKeicuT ne, Ne-Nxic-oypMMAO If the emperor were your father, you would be rich Since the Tlwn clause is a preterit conversion, the preterit particle n e (116) can occur option- ally, as seen in the first example below. 171  LESSON TWENTY ii. Past tense contrary to fact // clause (//... had... ): affirmative e - N e - N T - A - negative e - N e - M n e - Then clause (... would have): ecyjtne, ecyjce, or Neeicne + past tense e - N e - F i n e q - e i... ecyjcne A C - c y c u n e N 6 i - e A H T i - n i c o c M o c If He had not come... , then the end of the world would have come to pass Authors sometimes mix different types of / / a n d Then clause in a single sentence, e t y t o n e XNr-oycxse, N e T - N A - M e p i T - q = If ever I am wise, I would love him [mixture of generalization and contrary to fact]. [CG 500] PURPOSE AND RESULT 153. Purpose (to, in order to, so that... might... ) [CG 502] is expressed by e-'infinitive or eTB6-*infinitive e-*Tpe- xe- or xeKxxc + optative For example NT-AK-ei e-HxKo-N = You have come to destroy us Aq-ei N 6 I - T C e-^Tpeq-Jci-^BAnTicMai = Jesus came so that he might be bap- tized AY-eme N A - q T i - 2 e N c y H p e O ^ H M J C E K A C e q e - T A A e - N e q 6 i J C eJcoj-OY = They brought some children to Him so that He might lay His hands upon them 154. Result (so as to, so that... ) [CG 503] is expressed by 2cucTe e-*infinitive 2cucTe e-*Tpe- Ziucre + conjunctive For example AY-Me2-n.xoT C N A Y Z'^CTB e-^TpeY-tuMc = They filled both boats, so that they sank c-AcyAi N 6 i - T A r A n H 2 T T M O = before (Compound preposition). ^ n e - 2 p o o Y v o i c e , sound. ^ * T - e p H M O C wilderness, desert. ' C O O Y T T T ( C O Y T T T - , C O Y T C U N * ) C O Y T C U N * straighten, stretch out. * n - M o e i T road, path. ' n - a c A e i e wilderness, desert. * K H p Y c c e announce, pro- claim. " *T-MeTANOiA repentance, c h a n g e o f heart. '- * T e - x c u p A region. n-eiepo river. *e50MOAorei confess. " n-qcu T T - 6 A M O Y A skin o f camel, camel skin. " T O ^ 2 " " " ' - 1 ( w a s ) put upon h i m , i.e. h e w a s wearing it (f, f-, T A A S , T O * ). 177  THE GOSPEL OF MARK oyMoxz" N-cyAAp MHp e-Teq-f-ne'** eq-OYeM-^ajJce" 2'-''eBia)^° N-200YT. 7. Aycu Neq-TAcye-^oeicy eq-jccu M M O - C Jce-q-NHy M N N C C U - ' I Ndi-n-CT^-Jtoop^' epo-T C - A N r - o y z i K A N O C ^ ^ A N c-^nAgT-*^' C - ^ ' B C U A C B O A TT-nMOYC^"' M-ncqTooye. 8. ANOK, AT--t--*BAnTiCMA N H - T T T 2N-oYMOoy. TjToq Ae, eq-NA- BAnTi^e M M C U - T T T gN-oynNA eq-oyAAB. 9. Aycu AC-cycune eTT-Nceooy eT^-PiMAy Aq-ei TT6i-Tc C B O A. 2N-NAZApeT TTTC-TTAAIAAIA. Aycu Aq-JCI-^BAHTICMA 2M-TI'0P- A A N H C T T T T T - I C U 2 A N N H C. 10. TiTeyNoy A C e q - N H y e2PAT 2 M - n M o o y Aq-NAy e-KinHye e-Ay-oycuN Aycu nenTjA e q - N H y enecHT ejccu-q TTee TT-oy- 6pooMne^^. 1 1. Aycu o y c M H , A c - c y c u n e C B O A 2N-MTTHye J C C - T T T O K ne H A U ^ H p e nAMcpiT C N T - A - n A o y c o c y cycune T J 2 H T - K. 12. A y c u 2 N - T e y N o y neTrTTA, A q - J c i T - q e s o A e - T c p H M O c. 13. Aycu Neq-2N-TepHMOc T T - 2 M C TT-20oy epe-ncATANAc^* nei- pA^e^^ M M o - q e q - c y o o n MTT-NceHpioN^**. Aycu TjArreAoc, Ncy-AiA- KONCI^' N A - q. 1 4. MTTTicA-TTce-nApAAiAoy T T - I C U 2 A N N H C Aq-ei N 6 I - T C e2pAT e - TPAAiAAiA e q - K H p y c c e T T - n e y A r r c A i o N M-nNoyTe 15. Jce-A-neoyocicy J C C U K C B O A. Aycu Ac-2a)N c2oyN TT6i- T M T T T - P P O M-nNoyTc. M B T A N O C I TTTCTTi-nicTeye 2M-neyArre- AION. 1 6. Aycu e q - M o o c y e 2ATTT-TeeAAACCA T T - T P A A I A A I A Aq-NAy e-ci- MCUN M T T - A N A p C A C n C O N T T - C I M C U N e y - N e O C - ^ C y N C ^ " C - T e e A A A C C A. Ne-2eNoycu2e^' rAp N C. " n - M O J i : 2 N - q j A A p girdle o f leather, leathern girdle. '* T - - t - n e loins. '' ne- c y j c e locu.st. n - c B i c u T T - 2 0 o y T wild h o n e y ( T T - 2 0 o y T = wild). ^' j c o o p * is strong, j c o o p e- stronger than. * 2 I K A N O C (Adjective) qualified, adequate. " n c u 2 T ( n e 2 T - , n A 2 T = ) n A 2 T ^ bend. ^'^ n - M o y c M-neqTOoye strap of his sandel. n e - ( a n d T C - ) 6 p o o M n e dove. n - C A T A N A C Satan. *nei- pxze put to the test, tempt. *ne-eHpioN wild beast. * A ] A K O N e i assist, serve. n e - c y N e , plural c y N H y net. " n - o y c u 2 e fisherman. 178  CHAPTER ONE 17. neJCA-q NA-y N 6 I - T C jce-AMHem^^. OYe2-THYTN^^ N C C U - T. Aytu t-NA-p-THYTN N-^oycoee N-peq-6en-''pcuMe'''*. 18. NTeyNOY -^e A y - K A - N e y c y N H y. A y - o y A e - o y Nccu-q. 19. Aycu NTepeq-MOOcye e e n ^ ' Noyicoyi^* Aq-NAy C - I A K C U B O C ncynpe N-zeseAAioc M N - I C U 2 A N N H C neqcoN NTooy gto-oy e y - 2M-njcoi e y - c o B T e N-NeycyNHy. 20. N T e y N o y A q - M o y T e e p o - o y. Aycu Ay-KA-neyeicuT zeseAAioc 2M-njtoT MN-NJCAi'-^seKe^^. A y - B c u K. A y - o y A 2 - O Y Nccu-q. 21. Ay-BcuK A.e e2oyN e-KA