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Egyptian
Etymology
From ḥm-nṯr (“servant of god, priest”) + tpj (“first”), literally ‘first servant of the god’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- high priest; the head of the priestly hierarchy of a temple during the New Kingdom.
Inflection
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58.
