mswt-wsjr

mswt-wsjr

Egyptian

Etymology

mswt (“birth”) +‎ wsjr (“Osiris”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘birth(day) of Osiris’.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /maˈsaːwat waˈsijɾuw/ → /maˈsaːwaʔ waˈsijɾuw/ → /maˈsaːwa waˈsiːɾaʔ/ → /məˈsoːwə wəˈsiːɾə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /maˈsaːwat waˈsijɾuw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /maˈsaːwaʔ waˈsijɾuw/
• (Medio-Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /maˈsaːwa waˈsiːɾaʔ/
• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /məˈsoːwə wəˈsiːɾə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛsuːt wɛsir/
  • Conventional anglicization: mesut-wesir

Proper noun

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1. The first of the five epagomenal (intercalary) days (djw ḥrjw rnpt) added to the end of the year in the ancient Egyptian calendar.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.