Word origins

• reAbout, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
• abAn abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
• haA representation of laughter.
• baA being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
• raAny of a series of moraines, in parts of Norway, that are long ridges covered with stones.
• nuThe letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
• puntA narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole.
• SHUA god personifying the air and atmosphere.
• siaTagged at the end of a sentence to express discontent, shock, surprise, exhaustion or exasperation.
• MAUA kind of short-haired domestic cat.
• atenThe deified disc of the sun, as an aspect of Re or as the sole God under Akhenaten.
• khuSynonym of akh (“a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed its transition to the afterlife”)
• ankhA cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
• maatmate; buddy
• GEBThe god who serves as the personification of the earth.
• TutankhamunAncient Egyptian pharaoh known for his young age and his tomb, which was preserved intact to the modern age.
• NefertitiA queen of Ancient Egypt, the chief consort of the pharaoh Akhenaten.
• KemetSynonym of Ancient Egypt.
• debenA measure of weight used during the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, equivalent to about 13.6 grams.
• HatshepsutAn ancient Egyptian queen (1508–1458 BCE).
• UnasAn Egyptian pharaoh of the fifth dynasty
• akhIn Egyptian mythology, (roughly) a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed its transition to the afterlife.
• AkhenatenA male given name of historical usage, notably borne by the 14th century BCE pharaoh Akhenaten, father of Tutankhamon and founder of Atenism
• SobekAn ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.
• kamutA commercial cultivar of Khorasan wheat.
• SutekhAn ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
• BastetThe goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and Lower Egypt; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head.
• KhufuSynonym of Cheops.
• senetAn Ancient Egyptian board game, probably played as a strategy game similar to chess or go.
• SebekA surname.
• nemesA headcloth worn by pharaohs.
• KhemLetopolis
• PeretOne of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt, coming after Akhet and before Shemu; Emergence.
• AkhetThe region in the sky in which the sun tarries just before it rises or after it sets.
• Akhetatenthe capital city newly established and built by the pharaoh Akhenaten, modern-day Amarna, Egypt
• AmduatAn ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom describing the journey of the sun through the underworld at night.
• AnputAn ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Anubis
• AnuketAn Ancient Egyptian goddess of the cataracts (“rapids”) of the Nile River. Sometimes treated as an aspect of the god of the Nile.
• benben stoneA sacred stone found in solar temples in ancient Egypt.
• BennuA self-created deity with the form of a bird (in New Kingdom artwork, a heron) that features in the ancient Egyptian creation myth and is also described as the ba (soul) of Ra.
• DjahySouthern Retjenu
• duatThe realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.
• HedjetThe White Crown of pharaonic Upper Egypt.
• hekaA mystic animating force present in the universe, used by deities and people.
• heqatAn Ancient Egyptian dry measure of volume equivalent to 10 hins (or about 4.8 litres).
• HeqetAn Egyptian goddess of fertility, represented in the form of a frog.
• KeftiuA place mentioned in hieroglyphics in the Ptolemaic temple of Kom Ombo in Upper Egypt, generally believed to be Caphtor.
• KhepriA scarab-faced god who represents the rising or morning sun.
• KhnumOne of the earliest Egyptian gods. He is said to be the source of the Nile River.
• KhonsuThe Ancient Egyptian god of the moon.
• khopeshAn Ancient-Egyptian sickle-like sword.
• medjedA species of elephantfish formerly worshipped at Oxyrhynchus.
• menatIn Ancient Egypt, a heavy beaded necklace and musical instrument with a crescent-shaped plate in the front and a keyhole-shaped amuletic counterweight in the rear, considered sacred to Hathor.
• mesdemetA pigment made from stibnite and/or galena, once used in Egypt as an eye cosmetic.
• RetjenuThe Pharaonic areas of Canaan and Syria, stretching from the Negev Desert in southern Israel to the Orontes River which flows from central Lebanon to Syria and Turkey. Djahy refers to the area of Retjenu spanning from Ashkelon to Lebanon and Galilee.
• ShemuOne of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt coming after Peret and before Akhet; Harvest.
• shendyta type of loincloth worn in Ancient Egypt
• shen ringA circle with a line at a tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylized loop of rope, representing eternal protection.
• SokarAn Ancient Egyptian hawk god of the Memphite necropolis.
• TefnutA goddess of the Heliopolitan Ennead, commonly taken to be a personification of moisture
• TesemAn extinct kind of dog from Ancient Egypt resembling a greyhound
• tjatyA vizier in Ancient Egypt.
• TutankhatenA male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Tutankhaten (later Tutankhamon), a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, as his nomen.
• udjatSynonym of Eye of Horus.
• ushabtiIn Ancient Egypt, a figurine of a dead person, placed in their tomb to do their work for them in the afterlife.
• wadjetThe patron goddess and namesake of the Ancient Egyptian city of Per-Wadjet, known as Buto to the Greeks. Wadjet takes the form of a cobra and is associated with the Eye of Horus.
• was-sceptreA type of sceptre with an animal head and a forked tail appearing in Ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphs.
• wenisThe skin on the outside of the elbow.