jꜥj ḥr

Egyptian

Etymology

jꜥj (“to wash”) +‎ ḥr (“face”), thus ‘to wash the face’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑːi hɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: iai her

Verb

 compound

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. to be vengeful
   2. to be sharp-sighted
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jꜥj,‎ ḥr.

Derived terms

• jꜥ-ḥr

References

• “jꜥi̯ (ḥr) (lemma ID 21600)”, 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, pages 39.5–39.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10