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Egyptian
Etymology
gs (“half, side”) + tp (“head”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘half of the head’ or ‘side of the head’.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- migraine headache
- c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus, lines 47.14–47.15 (Eb 250):[1]
- kt nt mrt m gs-tp ḏnnt nt nꜥr snwḫ ḥr mrḥt gs tp jm r jfdw hrw
- Another for pain in a migraine: the skull of a catfish, boiled in oil/fat. Anoint the head in it over the course of four days.
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: ἡμικρανία (hēmikranía) (calque)
References
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 164
- ^ Wreszinski, Walter (1913) Der Papyrus Ebers: Umschrift, Übersetzung und Kommentar (volume III of Die Medizin der alten Ägypter), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 74