yr-ꜥꜣ

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian jtrw ꜥꜣ. By surface analysis, yr (“river, canal”) +‎ ꜥꜣ (“great”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jəɾəˈʕoʔ/, /jəɾəˈʕaʔ/

Proper noun

ꜥꜣ⁠N36-N23⁠Z1⁠mw⁠r⁠y m

  1. the Nile

Alternative forms
  • ꜥꜣ⁠N36-N23⁠mw⁠r⁠ꜥ⁠y (yꜥr-ꜥꜣ)

Descendants
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲓⲉⲣⲟ (iero)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲁⲣⲟ (iaro)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓⲉⲣⲁ (iera)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ (eiero), ⲓⲉⲣⲟ (iero)
  • → Old Persian: 𐎱𐎡𐎼𐎠𐎺 (Pirāva)
  • → Achaemenid Elamite: [script needed] ([hPi-ra]-ma)
  • → Neo-Assyrian: 𒅀𒊒𒀪𒌑 (ia-ru-ʾu-u₂)[1]

References
  1. “Iaruʾu”, in The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period‎, (Can we date this quote?)
  • Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 50
  • Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago‎, volume Y (01.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 12
  • Mahlich, Elena. "The Appellation of the River Nile in Achaemenid Texts". Egyptian Loanwords in Languages of the Ancient Near East. Ménant (1897), 131-157.
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