pꜣwt

Egyptian

FWOTD – 28 June 2015

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɑuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: paut

Noun

 f

1. a kind of baked goods used as an offering, considered the food of gods and the dead

Inflection

Declension of pꜣwt (feminine)

singular	pꜣwt
dual	pꜣwtj
plural	pꜣwwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pꜣwt  

pꜣwt

Noun

 m

1. The beginning of time, antiquity
   • 12th Dynasty, rock tombs at Meir, tomb chapel B4 of Ukhhotep III, inner room, east wall, north of entrance, register 2:

     jw.j ḥr mꜥq ḏr pꜣwt
     nj mꜣ.j mjtj srw pn

     I have been roasting since the beginning of time,
     but I have never seen the like of this goose.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pꜣwt  

pꜣwt

Derived terms

• pꜣwtj

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 495.6–495.9, 496.1–496.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 87
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 269.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 123