![]() To make it easier to say, Egyptologists choose to say the word as "ee-set". Later, the name in Coptic dialects was "Ēse" or "Ēsi". ![]() Based on recent studies, the reconstructed pronunciation of her name is * ʔŪsat (ooh-saht). However, the true Egyptian pronunciation is not known because their writing system left out vowels. The Egyptian name was recorded as ỉs.t or ȝs.t. The English pronunciation used, /ˈaɪ.sɪs/), comes from the pronunciation of the Greek name, Ίσις, which changed the Egyptian name by adding a final "-s" because of the grammatical requirements of Greek noun endings.
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