Egyptian
FWOTD – 30 March 2015
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
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- river
- The Nile River.
- Synonym: ḥꜥpj
Inflection
Declension of jtrw (masculine)
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jtrw
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jtrwwj
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jtrw
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jtr
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jtry
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: (yr)
- Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲟⲣ (eioor) (Sahidic), ⲓⲟⲣ (ior) (Bohairic)
- ⇒ Demotic: (yr-ꜥꜣ)
- Coptic: ⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ (eiero) (Sahidic), ⲓⲁⲣⲟ (iaro) (Bohairic)
- → Old Persian: 𐎱𐎡𐎼𐎠𐎺 (Pirāva)
- → Achaemenid Elamite: [script needed] ([hPi-ra]-ma)
- → Neo-Assyrian: 𒅀𒊒𒀪𒌑 (ia-ru-ʾu-u₂)[2]
- → Hebrew: יְאוֹר \ יְאֹר (ye'ór)
Noun
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- a schene, a measure of length equivalent to 20,000 mḥw (“cubits”) (about 10.5 kilometres or 6.5 miles).
c. 1401 BCE,
Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, introduction, right parallel, line 10, upper and lower divisions:
- št-mḏwtj jtrw ⟨pḥrt ꜥrr(w)t tn⟩ n(j) sprt wjꜣ dwꜣtjw
- Running to this gateway takes a hundred and twenty schenes before the barque reaches the afterworlders.
Inflection
Declension of jtrw (masculine)
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jtrw
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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 105.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47
- ^ “Iaruʾu”, in The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period[1], (Can we date this quote?)