rꜥ

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian

(rꜥ, “sun, Ra”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾeːʕ/

Noun

⁠ m

  1. sun
  2. (prefixed with pꜣ) the god Ra

Descendants

  • Coptic: ⲣⲏ (rē)
    • → English: Re

References

  • Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 242

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈɾiːʕuw/ → /ˈɾiːʕuw/ → /ˈɾeːʕə/ → /ɾeːʕ/[1]

Noun

 m

  1. sun [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. (in fixed expressions) day (period of daylight) [since the Old Kingdom]
  3. (rare) sun of one particular day [Middle Kingdom literature]

Inflection

Declension of rꜥ (masculine u-stem)
singular rꜥ
dual rꜥwj
plural rꜥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  








rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ
[since the Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom]
in personal names
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rꜥ  






rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rꜥ rwꜥ rꜥ
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [since the New Kingdom] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

Proper noun

 m

  1. the god Ra (literally “Sun”) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. epithet for the king [since the Middle Kingdom]
  3. (only in the plural) one of a number of minor ‘Ra-gods’ or sun gods [since the New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of rꜥ (masculine u-stem)
singular rꜥ
dual rꜥwj
plural rꜥw

Alternative forms

See under the noun above.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: ⁠ (rꜥ)
  • → English: Ra

See also

References

  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
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