Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈnaːcaɾ/ → /ˈnaːtaʔ/ → /ˈnaːta/ → /ˈnoːtə/
Noun
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- god
c. 1900 BCE,
The Instructions of Kagemni (
pPrisse/pBN 183) line 2.2:
- nj rḫ.n.tw ḫprt jrrt nṯr ḫft ḫsf.f
- One cannot know what might come to be or what the god might do when he punishes.
- dead person (as a god)
- king (as a god)
Inflection
Declension of nṯr (masculine)
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nṯr
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nṯrwj
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nṯrw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nṯr
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Plural writings of nṯr
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nṯrw
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ntrw
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: (ntr)
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (noute), ⲛⲟⲩⲛⲧⲉ (nounte)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩϯ (nouti)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩϯ (nouti)
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (noute)
- Old Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (noute)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (noute)
References
- “nṯr (lemma ID 90260)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 358.1–360.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 142
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 13, 35, 53, 56
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 145