ꜣwt

From ꜣwj (“to be long, to extend (a hand), to give an offering”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: aut

 f

1. length, duration (of time) [since the Old Kingdom]

By Late Egyptian this word apparently becomes conflated with ꜣw (“length (of space)”).

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• m ꜣwt ḏt

 f

1. offering, gift, donation (particularly of bread) [since the Pyramid Texts]

In Late Egyptian this word is generally reduced to ꜣw, and since the 22nd Dynasty it appears frequently as an object of sfsf (“to present, to offer”), sometimes with the recipient added after n (“to, for”).

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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣwt  

ꜣw	ꜣw	ꜣw	ꜣw	ꜣw
[chiefly Greco-Roman Period]	[chiefly Greco-Roman Period]	[chiefly Greco-Roman Period]	[chiefly Greco-Roman Period]	[chiefly Greco-Roman Period]

 f

1. altar [19th Dynasty]

?

1. a hidden chamber in a temple containing cult images [Greco-Roman Period]

While this word is sometimes transcribed with a final -j/-y as if it were a nisba, this ending is unattested in the original script.

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 f

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. long knife

• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 3–6
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 1–2
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 4.15–4.16, 5.2–5.3, 5.13–5.14