 The term "remənkʰēmi/rəmənkēme" meaning 'Egyptian', literally 'person of Egypt', is a compound of "rem-", which is the construct state of the Coptic noun /, 'man, human being', + the genitive preposition "(ə)n-" 'of' + the word for 'Egypt', / "kʰēmi/kēme" (cf.Kemet).Thus, the whole expression literally means 'language of the people of Egypt', or simply 'Egyptian language'.