ꜣḫ jb

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣḫ (“to be effective or useful”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”), thus literally ‘to be effective of heart’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑx ib/
  • Conventional anglicization: akh ib

Verb

 compound

1. to be(come) well-disposed or serviceably minded (+ n: toward) [18th Dynasty]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 13.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4