ꜣꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. mound of ruins [Middle to New Kingdom]

Usage notes

Possibly, following Gardiner’s suggestion, this word may be merely a variant writing of jꜣt (“mound”).

Inflection

Declension of ꜣꜣ (masculine)
singular ꜣꜣ
dual ꜣꜣwj
plural ꜣꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣꜣ  


jꜣꜣ jꜣt
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom]

References

  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 1, 7
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 2.6
  • Gardiner, Alan (1948) “The First Two Pages of the Wörterbuch” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34, p. 15
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