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Egyptian
Etymology
r (“regarding”) + sꜣ (“back”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
- (spatial) behind, following after
- (temporal) after
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 179–181:
- mꜣ wj r sꜣ sꜣḥ.j tꜣ r sꜣ mꜣ.j dpt.n.j
- See me after setting foot on land, after seeing what I’ve experienced!
Synonyms
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 233.