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Egyptian
Etymology
Perfective passive participle of rḏj (“to give”) + ꜥnḫ (“life”), thus ‘given life’. Unlike other such passive participial clauses, this one has been fossilized without any resumptive pronoun (a construction like *ḏj n.f ꜥnḫ would be expected).
Pronunciation
Phrase
- an honorific phrase frequently added after the name of the reigning pharaoh
Noun
m
- a state of having been ‘given life (forever)’ achieved by the pharaoh
See also
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 343.
