Where does “tše” come from?
tše (Demotic) comes from Egyptian tꜣšj, from Egyptian -j, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.
tše (Demotic): neighbor
Ancestry of “tše”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Egyptian | tꜣšj | neighbor |
| 2 | Egyptian | -j | Marks the dual form of nouns and adjectives.... |
| 3 | Egyptian | -t | Used to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An... |
| 4 | Proto-Afro-Asiatic | -t | — |