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Egyptian Loanwords in English - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 29 times
- The average score is 11 of 17
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| ꜣbw | The largest terrestrial mammal on Earth. Perhaps the second syllable is derived from Egyptian.* | elephant | 96%
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| ꜣbw | A shiny white material made from the tusks of the above animal. Historically an expensive product used for carving, nowadays illegal. | ivory | 93%
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| wḥꜣt | A spring of water in a desert. | oasis | 93%
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| šzp-ꜥnḫ | A creature with the head of a human and the body of an animal, female in Greek myth and male in Egyptian. A large and ancient statue of it exists in front of the Great Pyramids of Giza.* | sphinx | 93%
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| nṯrj | A chemical element. Air consists for around 80% of this. Its name is derived from a different word for saltpeter, a potassium salt, from the same Egyptian source as above. | nitrogen | 85%
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| ḏbt | Unbaked bricks. Or a tech company that allows you to view PDFs. | adobe | 81%
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| bḫn | Dark type of rock which is solidified lava. Under certain circumstances it produces columns like the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. In antiquity, it meant 'touchstone'. | basalt | 78%
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| bꜣjr | A poetic word for a sailboat with a flat bottom. With the prefixes em- and dis-, it becomes a verb meaning to go on and off board. | bark | 74%
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| hbnj | A jet black and very dense tropical hardwood. | ebony | 70%
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| jmn | A chemical with the formula NH3, used in the production of fertilizer. Named after an Egyptian god. | ammonia | 67%
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| hbj | A group of bird species with long, thin and curved bills. In Ancient Egypt, associated with the god of wisdom, Thoth. | ibis | 67%
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| jnst | A spice whose taste resembles licorice and fennel. Used to flavor certain sweets and liquors.* | anise | 56%
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| qmyt | Resin-like substance from plants used as a thickener, stabilizer and emulsifier in the food industry. Historically, people chewed on this; a modern type of candy is derived from this practice. | gum | 52%
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| ḥlm | A firm sheep's and/or goat's cheese from the eastern Mediterranean, which can be fried. | halloumi | 48%
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| nṯrj | A mixture of sodium salts used by the Egyptians to dessicate the mummies. Also the source for the chemical symbol for sodium. | natron | 48%
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| ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt | Soft, off-white and translucent stone used for carvings.* | alabaster | 19%
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| t3-'b.t | A bitter leafy green closely related to chicory, radicchio and catalogna. There are curly and Belgian varieties.* | endive | 19%
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