The story
- Egyptian · learned borrowing fromS-r:t*-S3
- English todaydeshret
Learned borrowing from Egyptian S-r:t*-S3 (dšrt), from S-r-G27 (dšr, “red”) with S3 as determinative + t (-t, feminine ending), thus literally meaning “the red one”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.