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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From rs (“to be awake”) + -wt, thus literally ‘awakening (in sleep)’.
Noun
f
- dream
- (figuratively) something insubstantial or trivial
- (only in set phrases in morning litanies) awakening
- ― rswt.k ḥtp.tj ― your awakening is peaceful
Inflection
Declension of rswt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rswt
Descendants
Etymology 2
rsj (“southern”) + -wt.
Noun
f
- south
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rswt
References
- “rs.wt (lemma ID 96130)” and “rs.wt (lemma ID 96150)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 452.1–452.4, 453.12
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 152
