Reconstruction:Egyptian/pꜣ-jḥ-mw
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From pꜣ (“definite article”) + jḥ (“ox, cattle”) + mw (“water”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘the ox of [the] water’.
Noun[edit]
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Inflection[edit]
Declension of Egyptian/pꜣ-jḥ-mw (masculine)
Usage notes[edit]
Unattested in the Egyptian literature. Proposed as a hypothetical etymology of the Hebrew word בְּהֵמוֹת (behemót, “Behemoth”). Jablonski renders it ⲡⲉ̀ϩⲉⲙⲱⲟⲩ[1]