nb-tꜣwj
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From nb (“lord”) + tꜣwj (“the Two Lands”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘Lord of the Two Lands’, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.
Pronunciation
[edit](reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˌnibuwˈtaʀwaj/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɛb tɑuːi/
- Conventional anglicization: neb-tawi
Noun
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References
[edit]- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68.