Egyptian

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Etymology

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Secondary dual form of tn, joining the (earlier?) form jptnj.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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 f du proximal demonstrative determiner

  1. (Old Egyptian) these two, those two

Usage notes

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This demonstrative takes the same functions as jptnj; see the usage notes there. This term is only attested in archaizing post-Old Kingdom texts.

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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References

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  • jptntj (lemma ID 851275)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 70.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 17
  • Edel, Elmar (1955-1964) Altägyptische Grammatik, volume 1, Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, § 182 et seq., page 83 et seq.
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1929) The Plural and Dual in Old Egyptian, Bruxelles: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, § 62, pages 63–64