Sometimes considered to be cognate with Proto-Semitic*šabʕ-, from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic*sṗɣ(“seven”).[1] However, the correspondences are problematic and have been challenged.[2]
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
↑ 1.01.1Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 32, 71
^ Rubin, Aaron D. (2004) “An Outline of Comparative Egypto-Semitic Morphology” in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) studies: in memoriam W. Vycichl, page 481