znf
Egyptian
Etymology
From Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ʒin- with an uncertain suffix -f, according to Orel and Stolbova’s very tentative reconstruction.[1] If so, perhaps cognate with West Chadic *ʒin- (“blood”), whence Hausa ǯinī.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ziˈnaf/ → /siˈnaf/ → /səˈnof/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɛnɛf/
- Conventional anglicization: zenef
Inflection
Declension of znf (masculine)
| singular | znf |
|---|---|
| dual | znfwj |
| plural | znfw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of znf
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| znf | znfw |
Descendants
References
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*ʒin-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 2626, page 546
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