šꜣwꜣbtj
Egyptian
Etymology
Perhaps from šwꜣb (“persea (tree)”) + -t + -j, with persea perhaps being the material they were originally made from. The Late Period form wšbtj is apparently reshaped by folk etymology from wšb (“to answer”) + -t + -j, thus literally ‘answerer’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ʃɑuːɑbti/
- Conventional anglicization: shauabti
Inflection
Declension of šꜣwꜣbtj (masculine)
| singular | šꜣwꜣbtj |
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| dual | šꜣwꜣbtjwj |
| plural | šꜣwꜣbtjw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šꜣwꜣbtj
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| šꜣbtj | šꜣbtj | šꜣbtj | šꜣbtj | šꜣwꜣbtj | šꜣwbtj | wšbtj | wšbṯj | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 373
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 435.15–435.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 263
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