ꜥ

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See also: Ꜥ and ʿ

ꜥ U+A725, ꜥ
LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL AIN
← Ꜥ
 		Latin Extended-D Ꜧ →

Translingual

Letter

ꜥ (upper case Ꜥ)

  1. (Egyptological transliteration) The lowercase letter ayin, used in most Egyptian transliteration schemes to represent the sound of the hieroglyph
    a
    . The sound value is thought to have been IPA since at least the time of Middle Egyptian, hypothesized by some to have come from earlier *.

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Egyptian

Etymology 1

Possibly related to Proto-Semitic *yad- (“hand”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

a
Z1

 m

  1. arm, hand
  2. ‘hand’ of an animal: hoof of a cow, foot of a crocodile, etc.
  3. part, portion
    1. specific measure of a substance such as food, liquid, or myrrh; portion
    2. individual item of something countable, item, piece
    3. pair of something generally found in pairs
  4. region
    1. area, region, portion (of a country, piece of land, or building)
    2. region of the sky where something, particularly the sun, is located
  5. (chiefly Late Egyptian) state, condition
  6. (chiefly Late Egyptian, with following infinitive as a genitive) manner (of doing something, such as moving or flying)
Inflection
Declension of ꜥ (masculine)
singular ꜥ
dual ꜥwj
plural ꜥw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥ  
a
D41
a
Z1		 D54
a
Z1		 W
y		 D54
Z1
a
ꜥ ꜥ ꜥ ꜥwj ꜥ
in the sense ‘state’ in the sense ‘state’
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Demotic: ꜥ (“state, condition”)
  • Demotic: Z1-2⁠ꜥwy (ꜥ.wy, “arms, portion, pair”)
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲏⲓ (ēi, “pair, couple”)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲏⲓ (ēi, “pair, couple”)

Compounded with nj (“of”):

  • ⇒ Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲛ- (an-, collective numeral prefix; place-name prefix)
  • ⇒ Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲛ- (an-, collective numeral prefix; place-name prefix)
See also

Noun

a
Y1

 m

  1. official document, register, record
  2. certificate, deed, warrant
Inflection
Declension of ꜥ (masculine)
singular ꜥ
dual ꜥwj
plural ꜥw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥ  
a
ꜥ

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

a
Z1		 mw

 m

  1. dyke
Inflection
Declension of ꜥ (masculine)
singular ꜥ
dual ꜥwj
plural ꜥw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥ  
a
N35B
ꜥ
Descendants

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

a
Z1		 xt

 m

  1. (chiefly Late Egyptian) wooden shaft, particularly as a carriage pole or drawbar
Inflection
Declension of ꜥ (masculine)
singular ꜥ
dual ꜥwj
plural ꜥw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥ  
a
xt
ꜥ

Etymology 4

From earlier
a
t pr
(ꜥt, “room”), or else a formation from the same root.

Pronunciation

Noun

a
Z1		 pr

 m

  1. house
Inflection
Declension of ꜥ (masculine)
singular ꜥ
dual ꜥwj
plural ꜥw
Descendants

References

  • “ꜥ (lemma ID 34360)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “ꜥ (lemma ID 34410)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “ꜥ (lemma ID 34390)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “ꜥ (lemma ID 34460)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 156.1–157.10, 157.14–158.12, 158.19–159.1, 159.3, 159.7, 159.15
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 36
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