sꜣgꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

Borrowed from Semitic. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sakʼ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛɡ/
  • Conventional anglicization: seg

Noun

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1. an inferior kind of cloth, most likely sackcloth [19th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of sꜣgꜣ (masculine)

singular	sꜣgꜣ
dual	sꜣgꜣwj
plural	sꜣgꜣw

Descendants

Probable descendants:

• Coptic: ⲥⲟⲕ (sok), ⲥⲁⲕ (sak)

References

• Hoch, James E. (1994) “383. *śaqqa”, in Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 269
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) “śg”, in Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 320.4