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Vinony

Egyptian

proper noun

  1. language spoken in ancient Egypt, branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages
  2. person from Egypt
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪˈd͡ʒɪpʃn̩/ / /əˈd͡ʒɪpʃən/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English Egipcien, egyptiane. Displaced Old English Egyptisċ. By surface analysis, Egypt + -ian.

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.

name

Etymology: From Middle English Egipcien, egyptiane. Displaced Old English Egyptisċ. By surface analysis, Egypt + -ian.

  1. The Afroasiatic language spoken (and written) in ancient Egypt
  2. The modern Egyptian Arabic language.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English Egipcien, egyptiane. Displaced Old English Egyptisċ. By surface analysis, Egypt + -ian.

  1. A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
  2. A gypsy.

    “The people then assembled in this barn were no other than a company of Egyptians, or, as they are vulgarly called, gypsies, and they were now celebrating the wedding of one of their society.”

    “I went to see the Egyptian, and the Hoodoo doctors too. They shook their heads, and told me there was nothing they could do.”