qꜣj sꜣ

Egyptian
FWOTD – 3 December 2012

Etymology

From qꜣj (“to be(come) high”) +‎ sꜣ (“back”), thus literally ‘to be(come) high of back’.

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /qʼaʀ saʀ/ → /qʼaʀ saʀ/ → /qʼaj saj/ → /qʼaj saj/

Verb
qAA28Aa17Z1

 compound

  1. (idiomatic) to be(come) proud, arrogant, haughty
    • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 230–232:
      D35
      nw      		 k
      A1      		 isqAA28Aa17Z1xnt
      t      		 snDA2z&A1&Z1 r
      x      		 Y1tA
      N23 Z1
      f
      a
      n      		 r
      a      		 raZ1A40snDA2k
      xt      		 x t
      D54      		 tA
      N23 Z1      		 HHr
      r      		 Aa19A24k
      m      		 xAstt
      Z1      		 nb
      nj jnk js qꜣ sꜣ ḫnt(j) snḏ zj rḫ tꜣ.f dj.n rꜥ snḏ.k ḫt tꜣ ḥr.k m ḫꜣst nb
      I am not an arrogant one, foremost, feared, a man known by his land, whereas Ra has put the fear of you throughout the land, the dread of you in every foreign land.

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 132, 378.
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