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Where does “nt-jqrt” come from?

nt-jqrt (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian nt, from Egyptian nrt, from Egyptian nrw, from Egyptian -w, from Proto-Afroasiatic -u.

Ancestry of “nt-jqrt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EgyptianntNeith
2Egyptiannrtvulture
3Egyptiannrwterror, fear
4Egyptian-wUsed to form the masculine plural forms of nouns...
5Proto-Afroasiatic-u—
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