jt-nṯrw
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Egyptian
Etymology
jt (“father”) + nṯrw, plural of nṯr (“god”), in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘Father of the Gods’.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌjatijnaˈcuːɾaw/ → /ˌjatijnaˈtuːɾaw/ → /ˌʔatənəˈtuːɾə/ → /ˌʔatənəˈteːɾ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /it nɛt͡ʃɛruː/
- Conventional anglicization: it-netjeru
Proper noun
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References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 130.