wꜣḏt

Egyptian

Etymology

Nominalized from wꜣḏ (“green”) +‎ -t (feminine ending), thus literally ‘the green one’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑd͡ʒɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: wadjet

Proper noun

f

the goddess Wadjet

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wꜣḏt

wAD

I12

M14

I13

wꜣḏyt

wꜣḏyt

[18th Dynasty]

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 268.17
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 56
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 458.

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