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Egyptian
Etymology
tpj (“first”) + rnpt (“year”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘first of the year’. The form with tpj written out in full (as opposed to written as tp) is unattested.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- ‘New Year’s Day’: a festival day at the start of the Egyptian year, the first day of the first month of ꜣḫt, originally aligned to the heliacal rising of Sirius in summer
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tp-rnpt
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 270.4–270.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 297
