ꜣst
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈʀuːsat/ → /ˈʀuːsaʔ/ → /ˈʔuːsa/ → /ˈʔeːsə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑsɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: aset
Proper noun
f
- Isis, an important goddess associated with magic and motherhood
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 14–15:
- ꜣst ꜣḫt nḏt sn.s ḥḥt sw jwtt b(ꜣ)gg.s pẖrt tꜣ pn m ḥꜣyt nj ḫn.n.s nj gm.tw.s sw
- capable Isis who saved her brother, who sought him without wearying, who circled this land in mourning, not alighting so long as he was not found
- a female given name, Iset or Aset, equivalent to English Isis
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣst
Some authors interpret this name as jst rather than ꜣst. Formerly it was sometimes read as st, but this reading is no longer accepted.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 20
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 8.11–8.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 5
- Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen, volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 3.18
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