Where does “mswt-ꜣst” come from?

mswt-ꜣst (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian mswt, from Egyptian -w, from Proto-Afroasiatic -u.

mswt-ꜣst (Egyptian): The fourth of the five epagomenal (intercalary) days (djw ḥrjw rnpt) added to the end of the year in the ancient Egyptian calendar

Definitions

  1. The fourth of the five epagomenal (intercalary) days (djw ḥrjw rnpt) added to the end of the year in the ancient Egyptian calendar

Ancestry of “mswt-ꜣst”, step by step

mswt-ꜣst traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Egyptian mswt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Egyptianmswtbirthing, the process of childbearing; birth
2Egyptian-wUsed to form the masculine plural forms of nouns...
3Proto-Afroasiatic-u

via Egyptian ꜣst

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EgyptianꜣstIsis
Every word from Proto-Afroasiatic -uEvery word from Egyptian -wEvery word from Egyptian mswt