Egyptian vs Enchorial - What's the difference?
egyptian | enchorial |
Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.
A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
(obsolete) A gypsy.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 457:
Indigenous, native.
* 1900 , George Johnson, "Place-Names" in'' George Upham Hay (ed.), ''Canadian History Readings , volume 1?, page 89
Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
* 1872 , Philip Smith, A Smaller Ancient History of the East , page 130
As adjectives the difference between egyptian and enchorial
is that egyptian is of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language while enchorial is indigenous, native.As a noun Egyptian
is a person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.As a proper noun Egyptian
is the Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.egyptian
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* walk like an EgyptianDerived terms
* Egyptian bean * Egyptian cotton * Egyptian cross * Egyptian darkness * Egyptian thornExternal links
*enchorial
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Adjective
(-)- Well, the right name, Ouigoudi , if it had been continued as the name of the settlement, would be styled an enchorial name. St. John is an imported name, having been taken from the river to which the name was given by deMonts and Champlain in 1604 because they discovered it on St. John the Baptist's Day
- The inscription of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics'' and in ''enchorial letters, with a Greek translation.