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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (uncountable) unripe sycamore figs
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 49–50:
- kꜣw jm ḥnꜥ nq(ꜥ)wt sšpt mj jr.t(w).s
- Unripe sycamore figs were there along with ripe ones, and muskmelons as if cultivated.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kꜣw
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 96.14–96.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 283
- Allen, James Peter (2015) Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 21
