ḏꜣ

Egyptian

FWOTD – 23 February 2020

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. fire drill (tool used to start fires)
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 54–56:






      šdt.j ḏꜣ sḫpr.n.j ḫt jr.n.j z(b)j-n-sḏt n nṯrw
      I took a fire-stick, I made a fire, and I made a burnt offering to the gods.

Inflection

Declension of ḏꜣ (masculine)
singular ḏꜣ
dual ḏꜣwj
plural ḏꜣw

References

  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 147
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