wꜣḏt
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Egyptian
Etymology
Nominalized from wꜣḏ (“green”) + -t (feminine ending), thus literally ‘the green one’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɑd͡ʒɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: wadjet
Proper noun
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Alternative forms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 268.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 56
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 458.