See nswt on Wiktionary
{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "jb-n-nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "jpt-nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "pr-nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "msw-nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "nswtyw"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "nswt-bjtj"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "nswt-nṯrw"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "nswt-ḥw"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "rḫ-nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ḥtp ḏj nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ẖrj-tp-nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "zꜣ-nswt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "zꜣt-nswt"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "egy",
"2": "nj",
"3": "swt",
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"gloss1": "of, belonging",
"gloss2": "sedge"
},
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"name": "compound"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "egy",
"2": "sux",
"3": "𒉺𒋼𒋛",
"tr": "ensi₂"
},
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"name": "bor"
}
],
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"tags": [
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"masculine"
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},
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "egy-table entry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nswt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "njw-swt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nswtyw",
"source": "inflection",
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"plural"
]
}
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"2": "nouns",
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},
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"name": "head"
},
{
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},
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}
],
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"categories": [
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"_dis": "42 42 15",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
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"orig": "egy:Nobility",
"parents": [
"High society",
"People",
"Society",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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"king of Upper Egypt"
],
"id": "en-nswt-egy-noun-HbprJYyD",
"links": [
[
"king",
"king"
],
[
"Upper Egypt",
"Upper Egypt"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 54 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Egyptian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 58 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 71 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 68 3",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "egy",
"name": "Royal epithets",
"orig": "egy:Royal epithets",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 76 8",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
"name": "Monarchy",
"orig": "egy:Monarchy",
"parents": [
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"High society",
"Government",
"Society",
"Politics",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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},
{
"_dis": "42 42 15",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
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"Society",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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},
{
"_dis": "33 46 21",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
"name": "Occupations",
"orig": "egy:Occupations",
"parents": [
"People",
"Work",
"Human",
"Human activity",
"All topics",
"Human behaviour",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I repeated favour before the king […]",
"ref": "Stela of Ity, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, 586",
"text": "i-w wHm*m:n W14-z:t-A1 x:r-M23-t:n\njw wḥm.n(.j) ḥzt ḫr nswt […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"king of (Upper and Lower) Egypt, especially as a divine power (as opposed to ḥm, which refers to a particular incarnation that holds that power)"
],
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"links": [
[
"king",
"king"
],
[
"Egypt",
"Egypt"
],
[
"ḥm",
"ḥm#Egyptian"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːwat/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːjaʔ/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔə/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔ/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːwat/",
"note": "Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːjaʔ/",
"note": "Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔə/",
"note": "Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔ/",
"note": "latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/nɛsuːt/",
"note": "modern Egyptological"
}
],
"word": "nswt"
}
{
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"forms": [
{
"form": "n:ns:z-w-t:N34",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "egy-table entry",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nswt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nswtj",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "nswwt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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"2": "nouns",
"head": "<hiero>n:ns:z-w-t:N34</hiero>"
},
"expansion": "n:ns:z-w-t:N34",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"head": "<hiero>n:ns:z-w-t:N34</hiero>"
},
"expansion": "n:ns:z-w-t:N34 f",
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}
],
"lang": "Egyptian",
"lang_code": "egy",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 42 15",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
"name": "Nobility",
"orig": "egy:Nobility",
"parents": [
"High society",
"People",
"Society",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 35 46",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "egy",
"name": "Weapons",
"orig": "egy:Weapons",
"parents": [
"Hunting",
"Military",
"Tools",
"Human activity",
"Society",
"Technology",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a kind of spear or javelin"
],
"id": "en-nswt-egy-noun-ycuj91zn",
"links": [
[
"spear",
"spear#English"
],
[
"javelin",
"javelin#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nɛsuːt/",
"note": "modern Egyptological"
}
],
"word": "nswt"
}
{
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"Egyptian compound terms",
"Egyptian entries with incorrect language header",
"Egyptian feminine nouns",
"Egyptian lemmas",
"Egyptian masculine nouns",
"Egyptian nouns",
"Egyptian terms borrowed from Sumerian",
"Egyptian terms derived from Sumerian",
"Egyptian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"egy:Monarchy",
"egy:Nobility",
"egy:Occupations",
"egy:Royal epithets",
"egy:Weapons"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "jb-n-nswt"
},
{
"word": "jpt-nswt"
},
{
"word": "pr-nswt"
},
{
"word": "msw-nswt"
},
{
"word": "nswtyw"
},
{
"word": "nswt-bjtj"
},
{
"word": "nswt-nṯrw"
},
{
"word": "nswt-ḥw"
},
{
"word": "rḫ-nswt"
},
{
"word": "ḥtp ḏj nswt"
},
{
"word": "ẖrj-tp-nswt"
},
{
"word": "zꜣ-nswt"
},
{
"word": "zꜣt-nswt"
}
],
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"2": "nj",
"3": "swt",
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"gloss1": "of, belonging",
"gloss2": "sedge"
},
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"name": "compound"
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{
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"1": "egy",
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"tr": "ensi₂"
},
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"name": "bor"
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"forms": [
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"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
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"source": "inflection",
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},
{
"form": "nswt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "njw-swt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "nswtyw",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"head": "<hiero>sw-t:n</hiero>"
},
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"lang": "Egyptian",
"lang_code": "egy",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"king of Upper Egypt"
],
"links": [
[
"king",
"king"
],
[
"Upper Egypt",
"Upper Egypt"
]
]
},
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],
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{
"english": "I repeated favour before the king […]",
"ref": "Stela of Ity, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, 586",
"text": "i-w wHm*m:n W14-z:t-A1 x:r-M23-t:n\njw wḥm.n(.j) ḥzt ḫr nswt […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"king of (Upper and Lower) Egypt, especially as a divine power (as opposed to ḥm, which refers to a particular incarnation that holds that power)"
],
"links": [
[
"king",
"king"
],
[
"Egypt",
"Egypt"
],
[
"ḥm",
"ḥm#Egyptian"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːwat/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːjaʔ/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔə/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔ/",
"note": "reconstructed"
},
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːwat/",
"note": "Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/nijˈsiːjaʔ/",
"note": "Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔə/",
"note": "Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʔənˈsiːʔ/",
"note": "latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE"
},
{
"ipa": "/nɛsuːt/",
"note": "modern Egyptological"
}
],
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}
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"Egyptian lemmas",
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"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"egy:Monarchy",
"egy:Nobility",
"egy:Occupations",
"egy:Royal epithets",
"egy:Weapons"
],
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"tags": [
"canonical",
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]
},
{
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"source": "inflection",
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"source": "inflection",
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},
{
"form": "nswt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "nswtj",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dual"
]
},
{
"form": "nswwt",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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],
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"spear",
"spear#English"
],
[
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"javelin#English"
]
]
}
],
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{
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"note": "modern Egyptological"
}
],
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}
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