tesem

Etymology

From a nineteenth-century transcription of Egyptian ṯzm (“hound”).

tesem means an extinct kind of dog from Ancient Egypt resembling a greyhound. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

noun

An extinct kind of dog from Ancient Egypt resembling a greyhound“We possess many illustrations of these Tesem greyhounds from the whole period of the Egyptian supremacy, some 3,000 years, and much care must have been taken to keep them pure-bred.”