ꜥff

Egyptian

Etymology

According to the Rösslerian school of Egyptian comparison, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ðuṗṗ, and so cognate to Hebrew זבוב.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈʕuffVj/ → /ˈʕuffVj/ → /ˈʕuffə/ → /ˈʕøff/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕuffVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕuffVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕuffə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕøff/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːfɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: afef

Noun

 m

1. fly (insect)

Inflection

Declension of ꜥff (masculine)

singular	ꜥff
dual	ꜥffwj
plural	ꜥffw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥff  

ꜥff	ꜥff
	abbreviation

Descendants

• Demotic: ⁠ (ꜥf)
  • Coptic: ⲁϥ (af)

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN