The Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt, Vol. 2

"Etimologically the Coptic term for altar seems to correspond very closely with tthe Greek. For "mapershooshi", which is the ordinary word, means 'place of making sacrifice': nor is the significance of this etymology lessened by the fact that the remote root in ancient Egyptian, from which the Coptic "shooshi" is derived..." - Chap. 1, Of the Coptic Altar. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1884 года (издательство "Oxford, at the Clarendon Press"). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt, Vol. 2