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Egyptian
Etymology
From ꜣḫ (“to be(come) effective, useful, splendid”) + m (“in”) + jb (“heart”), literally “to be effective in (someone’s) heart”.
Pronunciation
Verb
compound
- (with favoring person attached to jb as possessor) to find favour with (someone), to be(come) thought of highly by (someone)
c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE,
The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 106–107:
[1]- ꜣḫ.n(.j) m jb.f mr.n.f wj rḫ.n.f qn.n.j
- I found favor with him and he loved me when he found out how I had prevailed.
References
- ^ Allen, James Peter (2015) Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 95–96