qꜣ sꜣ

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 December 2012

From qꜣ (“high”) +‎ sꜣ (“back”), thus literally ‘high of back’.

(idiomatic) proud, haughty
- 12th Dynasty, The Story of Sinuhe version B, line 230:
  
  nj jnk js qꜣ sꜣ
  I [was] not arrogant

Declension of qꜣ sꜣ

	masculine	feminine
singular	qꜣ sꜣ	qꜣt sꜣ
dual	qꜣwj sꜣ	qꜣtj sꜣ
plural	qꜣw sꜣ	qꜣwt sꜣ¹, qꜣt sꜣ²
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132, 378

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