Vol. I - The Coptic Orthodox Church

Iviii Introduction.
supply some vowel when pronouncing these letters, either an a
or an e, probably the latter. And this was the case with
several other letters besides it and JUL, for we have 4/reTitoiruxyfi
(Deut. i, 41), Jiinp (ibid. 42), TeTHonruxyq (ibid.},
A.TTIW nr
TS&oq (ibid. 4, 15), HiteKpAxnTpe (ibid. 20), JU.K rteTit ,xXo
(ibid. 23), nrto-rre GT ortg (ibid. 26), K&.T&. TG&IH THpc (ibid. 5, 33),
e TOOTK (ibid.),
r
cy&-n rqqo r
ro-r e &oX (9a, or 4>0o, supply the
of words and
names. vowel, and suggest that the Egyptians pronounced it something
like " Ptah." Or, take the name of the god Horus, which the
Egyptians wrote HER f,^^. ^1- ^ ^> ^=> $ an(* I ^^'
without adding any vowel. The transcriptions of the name in
Hebrew (Tin), Coptic (/p) and Greek fllpos) prove that the
missing vowel is o, but the Egyptian forms of the name give no
Texts we find the form
indication of this fact. In the Pyramid
| ^ %> J^ (M. 454) which was held by one Egyptologist to
prove that the god's name terminated in u ; but, according
Vowels placed to M. Naville's view, which is probably correct, the is really
of words the vowel that is wanting in the name, which we ought
to read
"
Hur," or " Hor," as in Hebrew, Coptic and Greek. This same
scholar thinks that another example of the use of the in this ^
way is found in =9= %>fl ) or ^^efl, variants of =^=, =fi= ,
oDJTU ^DU D
~", and "ffl. As the Coptic form of the word is
dO A^D oDU
g,orrn, the ancient Egyptian form of the word clearly included