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Egyptian
Glyph origin
A picture of a folded cloth. This glyph was conventionally colored red. The original word behind the phonogrammatic value s is unknown.
Symbol
(s)
- Uniliteral phonogram for s; after Old Egyptian, as s and z merged, it could also be a phonogram for old z.
- Logogram for s (“vessel of gold”).
- Abbreviation for snb (“health”) in the formula ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb (“life, prosperity, health”).
Usage notes
Homophonic to
(𓊃) after Old Egyptian, when the two sounds merged.
References
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 507
- Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 48
