Some claim that Christianity is an adaptation of an Egyptian myth. The data on the other hand shows that Christianity entered Egypt from the Greek-speaking community in and around Alexandria and progressed up the Nile from there, adopting Egyptian terminology for shared concepts and maintaining Greek terminology for foreign concepts.
The following terms are pure Egyptian:
PNOUTE -- the god/God
NOBE -- sin
AMNTE -- Hades/the place of the dead
PDJOIS -- the Lord
TPE -- Heaven
PKAH -- Earth
OUAB -- Holy
The following terms were borrowed from Greek:
PECHRISTOS -- The Christ
PEPNEUMA -- The Spirit
TEPSYCHE -- the soul
Any Coptic grammar or lexicon will confirm this. Crum's Coptic Lexicon is accessible online and is the most authoritative Coptic Lexicon in English
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