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Etymology 1
From.

Determiner

 * 1)  all, every
 * 2)  any

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) lord

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) mistress, lady woman with authority over something

Determiner

 * 1) all, every
 * 2) every other
 * 3) all sorts of, all kinds of
 * 4)  any

Inflection
In the Pyramid Texts of Unas, among certain other Old Egyptian texts, is usually not inflected by gender and number but invariably appears as. Even within these texts, however, inflected forms sporadically appear.

In Late Egyptian, as all forms collapsed together with the masculine singular, the usual writing of the word came to follow the old feminine singular,.

Etymology 2
Ehret attempts to derive this term from a.

Noun

 * 1) lord, master, ruler (of a place or people)
 * 2) * 12th Dynasty, Stela of Nakhti, British Museum EA 143:
 * "egy"


 * 1)  master, superior
 * 2) master (of a span of time)
 * 3) owner, possessor, bearer (of an object)
 * 4) possessor (of an abstract quality)
 * 1) possessor (of an abstract quality)

Alternative forms
By the Late Period, the usual writing of the word came to follow the old feminine equivalent, as the two words merged into one.

Etymology 3
From with regular dissimilation of  to  before a labial; for the stem, compare,.

Noun

 * 1)  sin, damage, impurity