mn-kꜣw-rꜥ
Egyptian
Etymology
mn (“established”) + kꜣw (“life-forces”) + rꜥ (“Ra”) in two direct genitive constructions, thus ‘the established (one) of the life-forces of Ra’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛn kɑuː rɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: men-kau-ra
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mn-kꜣw-rꜥ
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Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: Μυκερῖνος (Mukerînos), Μεγχέρης (Menkhérēs)
- → Latin: Mycerīnus
References
- “Mn-kꜣ.w-Rꜥw (lemma ID 450221)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 36
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 53, 179
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