djw ḥrjw rnpt
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Egyptian
Etymology
djw (“five”) + ḥrjw (“being upon”) + rnpt (“year”), thus literally ‘the five upon the year’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /diuː hɛriuː rɛnpɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: diu heriu renpet
Noun
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- (plural only) the five epagomenal (intercalary) days at the end of the Egyptian year which did not belong to any month
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 107.