gbb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈkʼuːbVb/ → /ˈkʼuːbVb/ → /kʼuːbə/ → /kʼeːβ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈkʼuːbVb/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈkʼuːbVb/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /kʼuːbə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /kʼeːβ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɛbɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: gebeb

Noun

 m

1. earth, ground

Inflection

Declension of gbb (masculine)

singular	gbb
dual	gbbwj
plural	gbbw

Proper noun

 m

1. the god Geb (literally “Earth”)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 25:

     wḏ.n n.k jt.k gbb jr.n.tw ḫft ḏdt.n.f

     Your father Geb has decreed in your favor, and it has been done according to his word (literally, “what he said”).

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Κῆβ (Kêb)
• Coptic: ⲅⲉⲃ (geb)
• → English: Geb

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 148.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 164.6–164.7