Talk:無漏子

Are you sure this should be compared with 🇨🇬? Wyang (talk) 13:50, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * See page 82 of http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/f/11777230.html.--2001:DA8:201:3512:BCE6:D095:55F1:36DE 13:57, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. (I can't register to download the book to see page 82 on Sina, but I found another pdf version online.) I think it is an error in the book. Laufer's Sino-Iranica has this, and said bunnu is palm-date in Egyptian. This is echoed in this book and this book. Could you please help find this Egyptian word? Wyang (talk) 14:14, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The Egyptian word is originally, but as /r/ underwent sound changes during the Middle Kingdom this became variously (probably pronounced like , with the  written only for historical reasons), , or . (The missing glyph U54 is this one.) By Demotic times it was written  or . There are also derivatives of this word, such as  and , from which Coptic / originates. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 20:06, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Wow, thank you! I added the Egyptian forms to the etymology; please check. Is the "Bennu" sense of bnw the same word as "date palm"? Wyang (talk) 01:14, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
 * No, probably not the same; the ‘’ sense is generally considered to be related to (although some authors instead argue for a derivation from ; either way it’s closely connected with ). I’ll go add the ‘date’ sense and create the relevant entries. The etymology here looks good! — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 06:41, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Wyang (talk) 06:54, 27 October 2017 (UTC)