ꜥrq-rnpt

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜥrqy (“last day of the month”) +‎ rnpt (“year”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːrɛk rɛnpɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: areq-renpet

Noun

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1. last day of the year (as a festival), New Year's Eve

References

• “ꜥrq-rnp.t (lemma ID 39720)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 212.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 46