jnr ḥḏ nfr n rwḏt
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Egyptian
Etymology
jnr (“stone”) + ḥḏ (“white”) + nfr (“pleasing, fine”) + n(j) (“of”) + rwḏt (“hard stone”), thus literally ‘fine white stone of hard rock’.
Pronunciation
(reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈjaːnaɾ ˈħuːcʼaw ˈnaːfiɾ nij ˈɾawcʼit/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /inɛr hɛd͡ʒ nɛfɛr ɛn ruːd͡ʒɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: iner hedj nefer en rudjet
Noun
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- sandstone
- Synonyms: jnr ḥḏ mnḫ n rwḏt, rwḏt
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 413.2
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 24
- Harrell, James A. (2012) “Building Stones” in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, version 1(1), page 2.