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Egyptian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, from the pig’s roaring or grunting.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
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- (male) pig, boar
Inflection
Declension of rrj (masculine)
Descendants
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 438.7
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 151
- ^ te Velde, Herman (1992) “Some Egyptian Deities and their Piggishness” in Luft, Ulrich (ed.), The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt: Studies Presented to László Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday , Studia Aegyptiaca 14, Budapest 1992, page 571