wꜣst-nḫtt

== Egyptian == === Etymology === From wꜣst (“Thebes; goddess of Thebes”) +‎ nḫtt (“victorious, strong”, feminine perfective active participle), literally “victorious Thebes”. The variant form wꜣst-nḫt.tj is apparently instead construed with a feminine stative ending .tj, yielding the similar meaning “Thebes is victorious”. === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɑsɛt nɛxtɛt/ Conventional anglicization: waset-nekhtet === Proper noun === f Thebes (ancient Egyptian city; modern Luxor) [since the 19th Dynasty] Synonym: wꜣst the goddess Waset-Nekhtet personifying Thebes, depicted with the Theban nome standard on her head and carrying a bow and arrow [since the 19th Dynasty] ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === “Wꜣs.t-nḫt.t (lemma ID 859333)” and “Wꜣs.t-nḫt.t (lemma ID 854306)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 260.1–260.2 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 314.23–314.24 Leitz, Christian; Budde, Dagmar; Dils, Peter; Goldbrunner, Lothar; Mendel, Daniela (2002), Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 2: ꜥ–b, Leuven: Peeters, page 255