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Egyptian[edit]
Glyph origin[edit]
Representing the head of a pintail duck
(
𓅭).
- Logogram for ꜣpdw (“fowl”) in the offering formula.
- Determinative in wšn (“wring the neck of (a bird), offer”).
- (in hieratic texts) Phonetic determinative for mꜣꜥ, by conflation with (𓆀) when it lacks a crest.
References[edit]
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 473