Egyptian
FWOTD – 28 June 2015
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- a kind of baked goods used as an offering, considered the food of gods and the dead
Inflection
Declension of pꜣwt (feminine)
singular
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pꜣwt
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dual
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pꜣwtj
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plural
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pꜣwwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pꜣwt
Noun
m
- The beginning of time, antiquity
- 12th Dynasty, rock tombs at Meir, tomb chapel B4 of Ukhhotep III, inner room, east wall, north of entrance, register 2:[1]
- jw.j ḥr mꜥq ḏr pꜣwt
nj mꜣ.j mjtj srw pn - I have been roasting since the beginning of time,
but I have never seen the like of this goose.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pꜣwt
Derived terms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 495.6–495.9, 496.1–496.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 87
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 269.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 123
- ^ A. M. Blackman, The Rock Tombs of Meir, Vol. 3, pl. 23, 31