ꜥšꜣ-r

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜥšꜣ (“to be(come) numerous”) +‎ r(ꜣ) (“mouth, utterance”), literally ‘to be(come) numerous of mouths/utterances’.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ʕiˌʃiʀˈɾaʀ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʃɑ ɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: asha-er

Verb

 compound

1. to be(come) talkative, to chatter

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 228.17
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 391.24
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 49