rswt

See also: ršwt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈɾis.wat/ → /ˈɾiswaʔ/ → /ˈɾeswa/ → /ˈɾeswə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾis.wat/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾiswaʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾeswa/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾeswə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛsuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: resut

Etymology 1

From rs (“to be awake”) +‎ -wt, thus literally ‘awakening (in sleep)’.

Noun

 f

1. dream [since Middle Kingdom literature]
2. (figuratively) something insubstantial or trivial
3. (only in set phrases in morning litanies) awakening

   ― rswt.k ḥtp.tj ― your awakening is peaceful

Inflection

Declension of rswt (feminine)

singular	rswt
dual	rswtj
plural	rswwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rswt  

rswt	rswt	rs	rswj	rsjw	rs
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

• Demotic: rswe, rsw, rsw.t, rswꜣ, rswj
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲣⲉⲥⲟⲩ (resou)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲣⲁⲥⲟⲩⲓ (rasoui)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲗⲉⲥⲃⲓ (lesbi)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲣⲉⲥⲟⲩⲉ (resoue)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲣⲁⲥⲟⲩ (rasou)

Etymology 2

rsj (“southern”) +‎ -wt.

Noun

 f

1. south [Pyramid Texts]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rswt  

rswt

Coordinate terms

compass points:  ^[edit]

	mḥtt
jmnt		jꜣbt
	rswt

References

• “rs.wt (lemma ID 96130)” and “rs.wt (lemma ID 96150)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 452.1–452.4, 453.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 152