r (“to”) + ḏr (“limit”).
Prepositional phrase
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- whole, entire
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 143–144:
- dwꜣ.tw-nṯr n.k m nwt ḫft ḥr qnbt tꜣ r ḏr.f
- They will thank the god for you in the city in front of the council and the entire land.
- all the way (to); to the limit (of)
When this modifies a noun to mean ‘entire’, ḏr typically takes a suffix pronoun referring to the modified noun.
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64.
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 100, page 79