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Egyptian
Etymology
From ḫft(“facing, opposite”) + -j(“nisba ending”); the noun is simply a nominalized use of the nisba adjective.
From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.
James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 40, 88, 91, 339.
