tp-rnpt

Egyptian

Etymology

tpj (“first”) +‎ rnpt (“year”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘first of the year’. The form with tpj written out in full (as opposed to written as tp) is unattested.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛp rɛnpɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: tep-renpet

Proper noun

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1. ‘New Year’s Day’: a festival day at the start of the Egyptian year, the first day of the first month of ꜣḫt, originally aligned to the heliacal rising of Sirius in summer

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tp-rnpt  

tp-rnpt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 270.4–270.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 297