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- Egyptian · borrowed fromwꜣs“was-sceptre, rule”
- English todaywas-sceptre
Borrowed from Egyptian wꜣs (“was-sceptre, rule”), compounded with sceptre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was-sceptre
Today it means: A type of sceptre with an animal head and a forked tail appearing in Ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphs. Full definition →
Egyptian wꜣs