zꜣwtj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /zVʀˈjawtVj/ → /sVʀˈjawtVj/ → /səʔˈjawtəʔ/ → /səˈjawt/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /zVʀˈjawtVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /sVʀˈjawtVj/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /səʔˈjawtəʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /səˈjawt/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɑuːti/
  • Conventional anglicization: zauti

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. Asyut, a city in Egypt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 420.2