ꜣqyt

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣq (“to fade, to perish”) +‎ -yt.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ʀaˈq’aːwVt/ → /ʀaˈq’aːjVʔ/ → /ʔaˈq’aːʔə/ → /ʔaˈq’oːʔ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʀaˈq’aːwVt/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʀaˈq’aːjVʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈq’aːʔə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈq’oːʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑkiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: aqyt

Noun

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1. loss [19th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of ꜣqyt (feminine)

singular	ꜣkyt
dual	ꜣkytj
plural	ꜣkywt

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲕⲱ (akō), ⲁⲅⲱ (agō), ⲅⲱ (gō)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲕⲱ (akō), ⲁⲅⲱ (agō), ⲅⲱ (gō)

References

• “ꜣq.yt (lemma ID 294)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 21.22