jꜥj ḥr
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]jꜥj (“to wash”) + ḥr (“face”), thus ‘to wash the face’.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iɑːi hɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: iai her
Verb
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compound
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- to be vengeful
- to be sharp-sighted
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jꜥj, ḥr.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “jꜥi̯ (ḥr) (lemma ID 21600)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 39.5–39.6
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10