When looking up a Middle Egyptian word, it's usually not too hard to find the consonants: for example, if I look up U2 Aa11 D36 X1 C10
in Dickson's or Gardiner's dictionary, they tell me it means "rightness", and the consonant phonemes are m-ꜣ-ꜥ-t (that is, something like /mʔʕt/
).
However, no dictionary I've found lists the vowels, even in cases when we can be fairly certain of them. In this case, the word is transcribed into Akkadian as mu-a (in names like Nimmuaria), which seems like good evidence that the vowels were /u/
and /a/
.
Is there a standard reference work for cases like this, where I can look up U2 Aa11 D36 X1 C10
and see the reconstructed vocalization alongside the consonants?
P.S. I'm most interested in Middle Egyptian, but if such a work exists for a different stage of the language, that's also good to know about!