zft
See also: zfṯ
Egyptian
editEtymology 1
editRelated to zf (“to slaughter, cut up”), zfṯ (“to slaughter”). Also compare Arabic سيف (sayf), Amharic ሰይፍ (säyf), Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos).
Pronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈzuːfat/ → /ˈsuːfaʔ/ → /ˈsuːfa/ → /ˈseːfə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɛfɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: zefet
Noun
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f m
Inflection
editAlternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of zft
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editzf (“to be(come) mild, merciful”) + -t.
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɛfɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: zefet
Noun
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f
- (hapax) clemency, mercy, gentleness
References
edit- “zf.t (lemma ID 133420)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
- “sf.t (lemma ID 133500)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 442.7–442.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 224
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN