tꜣ-mrj
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Traditionally read and analyzed as tꜣ + mrj, thus literally ‘beloved land’. However, in part due to the unusual writing of the latter word, alternative readings have recently been proposed, such as James P. Allen’s suggestion of tꜣ + mr, literally ‘land of the hoe’, later revised to ‘canal-land’,[1] or Timofey Shmakov’s tꜣ + m + rnpwt, literally ‘land in flowering’ (i.e. ‘Flowery/Blossomy Land’). In these cases, the j in the word would not mark a separate consonant but rather a sound change of r to j, as is otherwise common in words such as zwr.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɑ mɛri/
- Conventional anglicization: ta-meri
Proper noun
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References
[edit]- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 126
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22.
- Shmakov, Timofey (2015) “Beloved Land, the meaning of tꜣ-mrj”
- ^ James P[eter] Allen (2014) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 26.