224 Rev. Epwarp Hincks on the Number, Names, and Powers 
this papyrus, in which this people are mentioned, was written, and the formation 
of the Coptic language. Champollion’s identification of a verb consisting of this 
character preceded by the quail with the Coptic oooTe appears to me still less 
to be depended on. This word signifies “to excel ;” whereas the Egyptian word 
is translated by Champollion, ‘to pass, to set out.” Another Coptic word, o«oT, 
“¢ other,” when joined with the particle e&0A, is used to signify “to be separated 
from; and Champollion endeavours to deduce the meaning of the old Egyptian 
word from a comparison of the two Coptic ones. But the old Egyptian WeC, 
as I write it, signifies sometimes “ to pass, or be carried,’’* and sometimes “to be 
happy or pleased.” It is, then, fully as natural to connect it with qo as with 
ovot. The former signifies literally “to leap up,” as in Acts, ili. 8; and meta- 
phorically “to exult.” Another word consisting of this character alone, or followed 
by the pair of leaves, CI, signifies “to traverse ;” it is used of the sun passing 
through the heaven; and I regard it as the root of the Coptic xo1, and the Hebrew 
sz, “a ship.” I do not bring these Coptic analogies forward as conclusive on the 
subject, though I think the latter tolerably clear ; but merely to shew that those 
adduced by Champollion are inconclusive. I depend more on the word signify- 
ing strong or strength, which is in Sahidic Goxx. This I take to be signified 
by abbreviation, by the character before us in the formula found in figures 92 
and 93, signifying “ living in strength and health.”” The latter word is frequently 
found written in full, SaNV; a waved line and a leg being added to the single 
character which here represents it. This word is generally accompanied by 
another consisting of the cucupha sceptre, with or without the owl or half arch; 
and it is now generally admitted that this signifies “strength ;” though Cham- 
pollion translated it “purity.”’ I consider it to be equivalent to the vase in a 
stand, both representing the Sahidic Coax. The name of this sceptre is com- 
posed of C 1, y 1, and M3, and it is a peculiar letter, equivalent, as I conceive, to 
these three when it stands alone, or to the first two when it has an owl or half 
arch for its complement. To this the horse’s leg, the natural symbol of active 
* In the representation of the panegyric of Harsaphes at Medinet Habu, Wilk. lxxxvi., it is re- 
peatedly applied to the king borne on his palanquin, as he is represented. The Latin veho (Fy 
and in Zend vaz), may therefore be more akin to the old Egyptian word than the Coptic one. The 
connexion between being carried and being happy appears in the Egyptian word ATP, as well 
as in this. 
