wꜣrt

Egyptian

Etymology

wꜣr (“to tie up”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: waret

Noun

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1. cord, rope, line
   1. tow rope for a clap net or for the solar barque [since the Book of the Dead]
   2. restraining rope used in hunting hippopotamoi [Greco-Roman Period]
   3. measuring rope [Greco-Roman Period]
   4. rope stretched in foundation ceremonies [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of wꜣrt (feminine)

singular	wꜣrt
dual	wꜣrtj
plural	wꜣrwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wꜣrt  

wꜣr	wꜣnrt	wꜣr	wꜣr
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

Černý proposes the following as descendants, but the connection is rejected by Vycichl on phonetic grounds:

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲗⲟⲩ (alou)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲗⲱ (alō), ⲉⲗⲱ (elō)

References

• “wꜣr.t (lemma ID 42980)”, 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, pages 252.3–252.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 53