tꜣ-wr
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Egyptian
Etymology
tꜣ (“land”) + wr (“great”), thus literally ‘The Great Land’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɑ wɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: ta-wer
Proper noun
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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 258.