ꜥš

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Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

Verb

a
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A2

 2-lit.

  1. (intransitive with n or r or transitive) to summon (someone), to call (someone) over
  2. (intransitive, with n or r) to call out to (someone)
  3. (intransitive, with n or r) to call on (a god) for aid, to invoke
  4. (transitive, Late Egyptian) to specify, to provide (a name), to name names
  5. (transitive, Late Egyptian) to read (something) aloud
Inflection
Alternative forms

Allen considers the form jꜣš a Middle Kingdom development, with the ayin having become a glottal stop;[1] however, this is in fact the earlier attested variant, and all writings until the 18th Dynasty have either instead of or (less commonly) alongside . The word only became common in the New Kingdom, however, so that the later renderings as ꜥš are by far the more common variants.

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Demotic: ꜥš
    • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲱϣ (ōš)
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲱϣ (ōš)
    • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲱϣ (ōš)
    • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲱϣ (ōš)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲱϣ (ōš)

Noun

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S
A2

 m

  1. call, summons
Inflection
Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

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M41

 m

  1. a kind of coniferous tree whose wood and resin were used medicinally, traditionally rendered as ‘cedar’, likely the Cilician fir (Abies cilicica)
  2. the wood of this tree
Inflection
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Noun

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Aa2W1

 m

  1. the resin of the ꜥš-tree
    Synonym: sfṯ
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

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W23

 m

  1. (Late Egyptian) beer jug
Inflection
Alternative forms

References

  1. ^ Allen, James Peter (2015) Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47