tp-rnpt
Egyptian edit
Etymology edit
tpj (“first”) + rnpt (“year”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘first of the year’. The form with tpj written out in full (as opposed to written as tp) is unattested.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɛp rɛnpɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: tep-renpet
Proper noun edit
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- ‘New Year’s Day’: a festival day at the start of the Egyptian year, the first day of the first month of ꜣḫt, originally aligned to the heliacal rising of Sirius in summer
Alternative forms edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tp-rnpt
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References edit
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 270.4–270.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 297