ḏj ꜥnḫ

Egyptian

Etymology

Perfective passive participle of rḏj (“to give”) +‎ ꜥnḫ (“life”), thus ‘given life’. Unlike other such passive participial clauses, this one has been fossilized without any resumptive pronoun (a construction like *ḏj n.f ꜥnḫ would be expected).

Pronunciation

Phrase
  1. an epithet frequently added after the name of the reigning pharaoh

Noun

 m

  1. a state of having been ‘given life (forever)’ achieved by the pharaoh

See also

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 343.
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