. The name of Restau is here derived from the effluxes flowing (stau) from Osiris.
The various meanings of
, and of the Coptic ⲥⲉⲧ, are all traceable to the notion of sending forth, throwing, and are easily illustrated from the Greek. Thus ἐκβάλλειν is used for the discharge of a river into the sea; ἐκβολαὶ are ‘passes, passages.’ Doors are secured by pushing the bolts, μοχλοὺς ἐπιβάλλειν; they are opened by shooting back the bolt,