wꜣrt

Egyptian

Etymology

wꜣr (“to tie up”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

Noun
wAAr
t		 V1

 f

  1. cord, rope, line
    1. tow rope for a clap net or for the solar barque [since the Book of the Dead]
    2. restraining rope used in hunting hippopotamoi [Greco-Roman Period]
    3. measuring rope [Greco-Roman Period]
    4. rope stretched in foundation ceremonies [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection
Declension of wꜣrt (feminine)
singular Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
dual wꜣrtj
plural wꜣrwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wꜣrt  
wAr
V1
wAAn
r
t V1
wAAr
V1
wAAr
wꜣr wꜣnrt wꜣr wꜣr
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

Černý proposes the following as descendants, but the connection is rejected by Vycichl on phonetic grounds:[1][2]

  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲗⲟⲩ (alou)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲗⲱ (alō), ⲉⲗⲱ (elō)

References
  • “wꜣr.t (lemma ID 42980)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 252.3–252.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 53
  1. Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 4
  2. Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 7
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