Where does “[[tꜣ]]-[[jpy]]” come from?
[[tꜣ]]-[[jpy]] (Demotic) comes from Egyptian jpt, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.
Ancestry of “[[tꜣ]]-[[jpy]]”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Egyptian | jpt | oipe, a dry measure of volume equivalent to 4... |
| 2 | Egyptian | -t | Used to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An... |
| 3 | Proto-Afro-Asiatic | -t | — |