jꜣbtjw
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iɑbtiuː/
- Conventional anglicization: iabtiu
Etymology 2
Ultimately from jꜣbt (“east”).
Noun
m
- east side, the east of a place [Middle and New Kingdom]
- c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 14–15:
- swꜣ.n.j ḥr jꜣbtjw jkw [m ḥryt] nb[t]-ḏw-(d)š(r)
- I passed by the east side of the Tura quarry [above] the Lad[y] of the Red Mountain.
- c. 1800 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version R (pRamesseum A/pBerlin 10499, Verso) lines 39–41:
- swꜣ.n.j ḥr jꜣbtjw jkw m ḥryt [nb]t-ḏw-dšr
- I passed by the east side of the Tura quarry above the [Lad]y of the Red Mountain.
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 31.4, 31.6
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 8
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