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What does a sparrow in Egypt mean?

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In ancient Egypt at least, nothing good. The hieroglyphic spellings of words denoting small, weak or bad things often included a picture of a sparrow as a determinative (i.e., a glyph indicating a category of meaning, rather than representing a specific sound or word).

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