swḥt

swḥt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈsawħVt/ → /ˈsawħVʔ/ → /ˈsoːħə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsawħVt/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsawħVʔ/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsoːħə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /suːħɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: suhet

Noun

 f

1. egg [since the Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

Declension of swḥt (feminine)

singular	swḥt
dual	swḥtj
plural	swḥwt

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲥⲟⲟⲩϩⲉ (soouhe), Bohairic Coptic: ⲥⲱⲟⲩϩⲓ (sōouhi)

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 73