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Egyptian
Etymology
qnj (“to be brave”) + -y + -t, thus ‘the Braves’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- (collective) an elite unit of soldiers or bodyguards
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of qnyt
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 279
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 44.17
