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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjatɾaw/ → /ˈjatɾaw/ → /ˈjaʔɾə/ → /ˈjaʔɾ/[1]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /itɛruː/
- Conventional anglicization: iteru
Noun
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[edit]- Demotic: (yr)
- ⇒ Demotic: (yr-ꜥꜣ)
- → Hebrew: יְאוֹר \ יְאֹר (ye'ór)
Noun
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- a schene, a measure of length equivalent to 20,000 mḥw (“cubits”) (about 10.5 kilometres or 6.5 miles).
- c. 1401 BCE, Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, introduction, right parallel, line 10, upper and lower divisions:
- št-mḏwtj jtrw ⟨pḥrt ꜥrr(w)t tn⟩ n(j) sprt wjꜣ dwꜣtjw
- Running to this gateway takes a hundred and twenty schenes before the barque reaches the afterworlders.
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[edit]References
[edit]- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 105.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN