wrmtj

Egyptian

Etymology

Possibly related to wrm (“to grow, to rise”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛrmɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: wermeti

Noun

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1. (dual only) A pair of protruding body parts. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Coffin Texts]
   1. testicles
   2. fingernails

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrmtj  

wrmt

References

• “wrm.t (lemma ID 47860)”, 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 333.4
• Takács, Gábor (2019) “A new idea on the origin of πῡραμίς” in Rocznik Orientalistyczny, vol. 72, issue 1, pages 98–134