dpt

See also: DPT and D.P.T.

Egyptian

FWOTD – 26 March 2014

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈtʼVːput//ˈtʼVːpuʔ//ˈtʼVːpə/

Noun


 f

  1. ship, boat
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 24–28:













      hꜣ.kw r wꜣḏ-wr m dpt nt št-mḏwtj mḥ m ꜣw.s ḥmw mḥ m sḫw.s št-mḏwtj sqd jm.s m stp n(j) kmt
      I had gone down to the sea in a boat of a hundred twenty cubits in length and forty cubits in breadth, with a hundred twenty sailors in it of the choice of Egypt.
    • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B1 (pAmherst 1 and pBerlin 3023) lines 221–222:[2]




      […] mj dpt nn sḫry jm.s […]
      […] like a ship without a captain […]
Inflection

Etymology 2

From dp (to taste) + -t.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈtʼiːpVt//ˈtʼiːpVʔ//ˈtʼiːpə/

Noun


 f

  1. taste (sensations produced by the tongue)
    • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) line 23:[3]


      […] ḏd.n.j dpt mwt nn […]
      […] I said “this is the taste of death.” […]
  2. (figuratively) experience
Inflection

Etymology 3

Possibly related to dpt (taste); see above.

Pronunciation

Noun


 f

  1. (usually in the dual) a kind of baked goods
Inflection
Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun


 f

  1. (originally in medical papyri) an edible doubled body part; conventionally rendered as loins, but possibly also the kidneys
Inflection
Alternative forms
Descendants
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲡⲓ (tipi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϯⲡⲉ (tipe)

References

  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58
  2. Allen, James (2015) Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 283
  3. Allen, James (2015) Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 71–72
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