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Egyptian
Etymology
prt (“emergence”) + spdt (“Sirius”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘emergence of Sirius’.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- the annual heliacal rising of Sirius
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 388.