šꜥy

šꜥy

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ʃaːʕVj/ → /ʃaːʕVj/ → /ʃoːʕəʔ/

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

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

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

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɑːiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: shay

Noun

 m

1. sand

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šꜥy  

šꜥ	šꜥj

Descendants

• Coptic: ϣⲱ (šō) (Sahidic, Bohairic)

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 419.23–420.9