tꜣ-ꜣḫtjw

Egyptian

Etymology

tꜣ (“land”) +‎ ꜣḫtj (“Akhet-dweller”) +‎ -w (plural suffix) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘land of the Akhet-dwellers’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɑ ɑxtiuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ta-akhtiu

Proper noun

 m

1. a distant land described as a source of dwarfs

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tꜣ-ꜣḫtjw  

tꜣ-ꜣḫtjw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 18.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 5
• Kuentz, Charles (1920) “Autour d’une conception égyptienne méconnue: l’Akhit ou soi-disant horizon” in Le Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale (BIFAO) volume 17, page 121–190