wḏꜣt
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wḏꜣ (“to be intact”) + -t (“feminine ending”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛd͡ʒɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: wedjat
Proper noun[edit]
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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[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜣt
Derived terms[edit]
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Noun[edit]
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- (Late Egyptian) a volumetric measure of grain, possibly equivalent to the ḥqꜣt (“heqat”)
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜣt
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Noun[edit]
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḏꜣt
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Noun[edit]
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Romanization[edit]
wḏꜣt
- Alternative transliteration of bꜣqt (“an epithet for Egypt”).
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN