2023 August 31, u/Regular_Fisherman_51, “first day of high school coming up i need some advice quick”, in Reddit[3], r/BruceDropEmOff, archived from the original on 3 November 2023:
Do yo own thing and don't gaf about what nb else say
2023 October 5, u/Colors100, “Just need someone to talk to”, in Reddit[4], r/SuicideWatch, archived from the original on 3 November 2023:
Public school was hell bc nb wanted to be my friend or associate with me due to me being trans.
Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic[5], third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 7
From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.
In the Pyramid Texts of Unas, among certain other Old Egyptian texts, nb is usually not inflected by gender and number but invariably appears as nb. Even within these texts, however, inflected forms sporadically appear.[1]
In Late Egyptian, as all forms collapsed together with the masculine singular, the usual writing of the word came to follow the old feminine singular,
(Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE)IPA(key): /ˈniːbuw/, in some circumstances reduced early to IPA(key): /nib/(by dialect? contingent on phonological context?)[2]
From m-(noun-forming prefix) + *bw(j)(“abomination”) with regular dissimilation of m- to n- before a labial; for the stem, compare bwt(“abomination”), bwj(“to abominate”).[3]
“nb (lemma ID 81660)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[6], 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
“nb (lemma ID 81650)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[7], 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
“nbw (lemma ID 82730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[8], 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
^ Allen, James P. (2017) A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Volume 1: Unis, page 55
^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 36, 55
^ Gundacker, Roman (2011) “On the Etymology of the Egyptian Crown Name mrsw.t*: An “Irregular” Subgroup of m-Prefix Formations” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 19, page 44