jrj-ꜥꜣ
Demotic
editEtymology
editFrom Egyptian jrj-ꜥꜣ (“doorkeeper”).
Noun
editDescendants
edit- → Ancient Greek: παστοφόρος (pastophóros) (calque)
- → Latin: pastophorus
- → English: pastophorus, pastophore
- → Latin: pastophorus
References
edit- “ı͗rj-ꜥꜣ (lemma ID dm38)”, 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
- Friedhelm Hoffmann and Joachim Friedrich Quack (2014), “Pastophoros” in A. M. Dodson, J. J. Johnston, W. Monkhouse (Hg.), A good scribe and an exceedingly wise man: Studies in Honour of W. J. Tait (GHP Egyptology 21), London, pages 127—155.
Egyptian
editEtymology
editjrj (“keeper”) + ꜥꜣ (“door”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘keeper of the door’.
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iri ɑːʔɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: iri-aa
Noun
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Inflection
editDescendants
edit- Demotic: (jrj-ꜥꜣ)
- → Ancient Greek: παστοφόρος (pastophóros) (calque)
- → Latin: pastophorus
- → English: pastophorus, pastophore
- → Latin: pastophorus
- → Ancient Greek: παστοφόρος (pastophóros) (calque)
References
edit- “jr.j-ꜥꜣ (lemma ID 28730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], 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
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 252.