šnft

šnft

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈʃinfVt/ → /ˈʃinfVʔ/ → /ˈʃenfə/, /ˈʃejfə/[1]

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

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

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

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʃenfə/, /ˈʃejfə/, with sporadic sound change /n/ > /j/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛnfɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: shenfet

Noun

 f

1. fish scale [Coffin Texts to Amarna Period]

Inflection

Declension of šnft (feminine)

singular	šnft
dual	šnftj
plural	šnfwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šnft  

šꜣnft	šnfw
	[Coffin Texts]
	in the plural

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲉⲛϥⲓ (šenfi), ϣⲏⲓϥⲓ (šēifi)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϣⲛ̄ϥⲉ (šn̄fe)

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 515.2
• van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 626

1. Gundacker, Roman (2011) “On the Etymology of the Egyptian Crown Name mrsw.t*: An “Irregular” Subgroup of m-Prefix Formations” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 19, page 41