Talk:wtṯ

Determinative Y1

@Vorziblix: I got the hieroglyphic spellings from the three entries in this dictionary (page 91). I'm not saying it's necessarily a reliable source, but perhaps it's right. Use your discretion. By the way, I thought that after they merged phonetically, ṯ and t became somewhat interchangeable in writing rather than t replacing ṯ entirely. Am I remembering wrong? --WikiTiki89 21:39, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

@Wikitiki89: That dictionary is basically a compilation of other sources, mostly reliable; in the case of this entry, the material is pretty directly derived from Faulkner’s dictionary. Faulkner lists the headword as and, later in the entry, when giving citations, writes ‘Urk. IV, 17,4 (dets. )’. It looks like the compiler of the pdf put two and two together and inferred that the latter form referred to was . Unfortunately, in this case, he was wrong, but the only way to tell is to go all the way to the source Faulkner cites.

You are right, ṯ and t were interchangeable to some extent, but it varied from word to word. In the case of this word the extensive slip archive of the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache apparently doesn’t attest any forms with from the Middle Kingdom onward; cf. their list of all attested writings [1], [2], [3], [4]. Of course, it’s possible that such a form does occur somewhere, but if so I’ve not been able to find it. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 22:03, 19 April 2018 (UTC)