A Little Egyptian Reading Book
Page 2
Vocabulary
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sy |
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her, she |
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ist |
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Isis |
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nts |
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she |
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nTr.t |
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goddess |
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aA.t |
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big, great (feminine) |
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Hmt |
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wife |
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n.t |
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of (feminine) |
Grammar
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Egyptian nouns come in two genders:
masculine and feminine. Feminine nouns usually end in "t"
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Adjectives must agree in gender with the noun
they describe. So we have:
masculine: nTr
aA the great god
feminine: nTr.t
aA.t the great goddess
This even applies to the possessive ("of"),
which agrees with the possessed noun, not the owner.
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Notice that pw is always the
second word in the sentence, so in the last sentence here the Egyptian
order is "Wife she (is) of Osiris."
