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Egyptian
Etymology
From nṯr (“god”) + -wj (dual ending).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m du
- Horus and Set
- Shu and Tefnut
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nṯrwj
Proper noun
m du
- the fifth nome of Upper Egypt, centered at Coptos and also containing Dendera and Naqada
Usage notes
The reading of this term is disputed; some have proposed ḥrwj instead.
References
- “nṯr.wj (lemma ID 851539)” and “nṯr.wj (lemma ID 850442)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 360.2–360.4
