ḏj ꜥnḫ ḏd wꜣs

Egyptian

Etymology

Perfective passive participle of rḏj (to give) +‎ ꜥnḫ (life) +‎ ḏd (stability) +‎ wꜣs (dominion), thus ‘given life, stability, and dominion’. Unlike other such passive participial clauses, this one has been fossilized without any resumptive pronoun (a construction like *ḏj n.f ꜥnḫ ḏd wꜣs would be expected).

Pronunciation

  • (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi ɑːnx d͡ʒɛd wɑs/
    • Conventional anglicization: dji ankh djed was

Phrase

  1. an honorific phrase frequently added after the name of the reigning pharaoh

See also

References

  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 343.