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Where does “bḥnt” come from?
bḥnt (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.
bḥnt
(Egyptian): knife
Definitions
knife
Ancestry of “bḥnt”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Egyptian
-t
Used to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An...
2
Proto-Afro-Asiatic
-t
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