nb-tm

Egyptian

Etymology

nb (“lord”) +‎ tm (“totality”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘Lord of Totality’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb tɛm/
- Conventional anglicization: neb-tem

Proper noun

m

an epithet of the god Atum

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 145, 147.

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