ꜥqy

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜥq (“to enter”) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiq’jaw/ → /ˈʕiq’jaw/ → /ˈʕejq’ə/ → /ˈʕejq’/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiq’jaw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕiq’jaw/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕejq’ə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʕejq’/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːkiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: aqy

Noun

 m

1. (Late Egyptian, hapax) ceremonial entrance of the king

Inflection

Declension of ꜥqy (masculine)

singular	ꜥqy
dual	ꜥqywj
plural	ꜥqyw

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥyq
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲓⲕ (aik)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲁⲉⲓⲕ (aeik)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲉⲓⲕ (aeik)

References

• “ꜥq.y (lemma ID 41430)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 232.10