zꜣṯw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɑt͡ʃuː/
- Conventional anglicization: zatju

Noun

m

ground
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 136–138:
  
  wn.k(w) r.f dmꜣ.kw ḥr ẖt.j dmj.n.j zꜣtw m bꜣḥ.f
  At that I was stretched out on my belly, having touched the ground before him.

Inflection

Declension of *zꜣṯw* (masculine)
singular	zꜣṯw
dual	zꜣṯwwj
plural	zꜣṯww

Descendants

Demotic: ꜣsṱ
- Coptic: ⲉⲥⲏⲧ (esēt)

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 316.