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vertical bar for its expletive, constituting a word, which is transcribed by oz and 
oe, and has heretofore been read SI, but which I propose to read SWI, supposing 
that to be both the name of the bird and the word signifying ‘‘a son.” I con- 
sider this word to signify “begotten,” as SeV, or SeW, the name of the father 
of the five principal deities, signifies “the begetter.”’ It is etymologically con- 
nected with w-os, and with our SO-N; which word, variously modified, is used 
in the same sense in all the Gothic, Lithuanian, and Sclavonic dialects, as well as 
in Sanskrit, where its root appears, SU, “to beget.” This character was used 
in the first period in the sense of “son,” being found on the tomb of Teta, 
In the third period (Sharpe, 80, 14) it occurs in the name of the God already 
mentioned ; which I consider to be a completion of the syllabic character in the 
fourth manner. In the name of the city of Neith it is completed in the fifth 
manner, S 2 being prefixed to it. I read this name SWal, the character now 
before us having in this instance the power of W, in the same manner as No. 31 
was shown to have in certain words the power of X. It has been said that this 
character has in Greek and Roman proper names the value S. The fact is, how- 
ever, that it only occurs in one proper name, SeBaocrn, where it precedes the leg, 
and with it represents the syllable 2B. The egg was used for the chenalopex, 
to signify “son,” in the age of the papyri, but I believe it was so used ideographi- 
cally. In the later ages it was used as a letter having the power of S; but with 
that I have at present no concern. 
52. A cruciform flower (U7; u7) is used in the eleventh line of an un- 
published stele in the British Museum, dated in the sixth year of Osortasen II, 
to express the syllable UN. In other steles of the same age, it is completed in 
the fourth manner, by the addition of N 1; where the same word occurs, which 
is HUN, new. In the fourth period we have the character occurring in the 
word represented in fig. 143, WaH, “a cow.” This implies that it had now 
become alphabetic ; and yet, so far as my observation goes, this is the only word 
in which it is not followed by N; its name is unknown. The hare, with which 
it is often interchanged, and which was always syllabic, was probably WoN ; and 
this may have been for distinction UN. 
53. An unknown object (X 3; x 3) is used ideographically with the semicircle 
and vertical line, implying that it is of the feminine gender, to express some part 
of the body; and, though Champollion thought otherwise, this is clearly ‘the 
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