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In the ancient Egyptian language the word for "sister" is a feminine form of the word for "brother". In hieroglyphs (which did not record any vowels, only the consonants), the word brother is spelled out sn plus the "man" determinative sign; sister has the feminine -t ending added to this: snt plus the "woman" determinative.

Modern Egyptologists use the vowel e to replace the unknown missing vowels, so these words are seen written today as sen and senet, but we can not know how they were said in ancient times.

The Egyptians used the term "sister" to refer to people who were not their sisters but friends and other family members; one Egyptian queen wrote to a Hittite princess and called her "sister".

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