šnḏwt

Egyptian

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛnd͡ʒuːt/
- Conventional anglicization: shendjut

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kilt made of šmꜥ-linen, especially the king’s kilt [since the Pyramid Texts, except for the Greco-Roman Period]
(literary, figuratively) protector [Middle Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of the phonetic component of šnḏwt

šnḏwt

šnḏt

šnḏyt

šndyt

šndy

[Old Kingdom]

[Middle Kingdom]

[19th-20th Dynasty]

Alternative determinatives of šnḏwt

[Middle Kingdom]

[New Kingdom]

Abbreviated writings of šnḏwt

šnḏwt

[since the Old Kingdom]

→ Ancient Greek: σινδών (sindṓn)
- → Classical Syriac: ܣܕܘܢܐ‎
- → Latin: sindon
  - → English: sindon
Demotic: šnt (“costume, kilt”)
- Coptic: ϣⲛ̄ⲧⲱ (šn̄tō, “(linen) sheet, robe”) (Sahidic), ϣⲉⲛⲧⲱ (šentō) (Bohairic)

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926-1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

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