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Egyptian
Etymology
tp (“atop”) + ꜥ (“arm”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
- (temporally) before
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 101–103:
- ḏꜥ pr(.w) jw.n m wꜣḏ-wr tp ꜥ sꜣḥ.n tꜣ
- A stormwind emerged while we were at sea, before we could set foot on land.
- (spatially) before, in front of
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tp ꜥ
Noun
m
- forebear, ancestor
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 282.1–282.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 297