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Egyptian
Etymology
From sqdj (“to travel by boat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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- sailor
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 119–121:
- jw dpt r jjt m ẖnw sqdw jm.s rḫ.n.k
- A boat is to come from home with sailors in it whom you know.
Inflection
Declension of sqd (masculine)
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 252.