jnr ḥḏ nfr n rwḏt

Egyptian

Etymology

jnr (“stone”) +‎ ḥḏ (“white”) +‎ nfr (“pleasing, fine”) +‎ n(j) (“of”) +‎ rwḏt (“hard stone”), thus literally ‘fine white stone of hard rock’.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈjaːnaɾ ˈħuːcʼaw ˈnaːfiɾ nij ˈɾawcʼit/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /inɛr hɛd͡ʒ nɛfɛr ɛn ruːd͡ʒɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iner hedj nefer en rudjet

Noun

 m

1. sandstone

   Synonyms: jnr ḥḏ mnḫ n rwḏt, rwḏt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 413.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 24
• Harrell, James A. (2012) “Building Stones” in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, version 1(1), page 2.