djw ḥrjw rnpt

Egyptian

Etymology

djw (“five”) +‎ ḥrjw (“being upon”) +‎ rnpt (“year”), thus literally ‘the five upon the year’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /diuː hɛriuː rɛnpɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: diu heriu renpet

Noun

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1. (plural only) the five intercalary days at the end of the Egyptian year which did not belong to any month

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 103.