jrj-ꜥꜣ

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian jrj-ꜥꜣ (doorkeeper).

Noun

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  1. doorkeeper
  2. pastophorus

Descendants

  • Ancient Greek: παστοφόρος (pastophóros) (calque)

References

  • ı͗rj-ꜥꜣ (lemma ID dm38)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Friedhelm Hoffmann and Joachim Friedrich Quack (2014), “Pastophoros” in A. M. Dodson, J. J. Johnston, W. Monkhouse (Hg.), A good scribe and an exceedingly wise man: Studies in Honour of W. J. Tait (GHP Egyptology 21), London, pages 127—155.

Egyptian

Etymology

jrj (keeper) + ꜥꜣ (door) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘keeper of the door’.

Pronunciation

Noun

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 m

  1. doorkeeper

Inflection

Descendants

References

  • jr.j-ꜥꜣ (lemma ID 28730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 252.
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