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Egyptian
Etymology
wḥꜣt (“oasis”) + -j (nisba ending) + -w (plural suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
m pl
- (plural only) oasis-dwellers
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥꜣtjw
References
- “wḥꜣ.tjw (lemma ID 48710)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 347.1
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 66
