šꜣwꜣbtj
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from šwꜣb (“persea (tree)”) + -t + -j, with persea perhaps being the material they were originally made from. The Late Period form wšbtj is apparently reshaped by folk etymology from wšb (“to answer”) + -t + -j, thus literally ‘answerer’.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ʃɑuːɑbti/
- Conventional anglicization: shauabti
Noun[edit]
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- ushabti [since the Book of the Dead]
Inflection[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šꜣwꜣbtj
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 373
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 435.15–435.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 263