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Actually I now find myself uncertain about how to form feminine nouns. I have been slapping a feminine marker -t on the root and then tacking case ending markers after that: f.nom.sg. dashratu, f.nom.pl. dashratuwa .... but it seems to me that Real Egyptian actually formed feminine plurals by first adding the -w- marker for the plural and _then_ the -t feminine marker, which would give me a f.nom.pl. like .. dashrawatu, instead. Not sure how to go here. Maybe I need to check some comparative ideas from Arabic or (if I can find any examples) other Afro-asiatic languages.
"dashrawatu" is more real, but I suppose that after -VC- the feminine marker
need not be vocalised, thus maybe sg. "dashratu", du. "dashratju", pl.
"dashrawtu" (m. sg. "dashru", du. "dashrawju", pl. "dashrawu").
Also the weak consonat "w" could disappear with lenghtening in daughter
languages, giving sg. "dashratu", pl. "dashra:tu" (m. sg. "dashru", pl.
"dashru:"). This would be similar to what we see for example in Babylonian:
sg. m. Sarrum dannum "mighty king", f. Sarratum dannatum "mighty queen",
pl. m. Sarru:m dannu:tum "mighty kings", f. Sarra:tum danna:tum "mighty
queens".
P.A.