wḏꜣt
Egyptian
editEtymology
editFrom wḏꜣ (“to be intact”) + -t (“feminine ending”).
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛd͡ʒɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: wedjat
Proper noun
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- (originally) the (dismembered and subsequently restored) Eye of Horus, a mythological conception of the full moon [since the Middle Kingdom]
- the Eye of Ra
- the eye of a god in general
- epithet for various goddesses as the personified eyes of a god
- an amulet in the form of the Eye of Horus
- used in the names of constellations [Greco-Roman Period]
- (in the dual) the actual eyes of a god or person [Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
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editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜣt
Derived terms
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editNoun
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- (Late Egyptian) a volumetric measure of grain, possibly equivalent to the ḥqꜣt (“heqat”)
Inflection
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editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜣt
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editRomanization
editwḏꜣt
- Alternative transliteration of bꜣqt (“an epithet for Egypt”).
References
edit- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN