sḫm-tꜣwj
Egyptian
Etymology
sḫm (“power, cult image, incarnation”) + tꜣwj (“the Two Lands, Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘Power of the Two Lands’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛxɛm tɑuːi/
- Conventional anglicization: sekhem-tawi
References
- “sḫm-Tꜣ.wj (lemma ID 853642)”, 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
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volumes 244.10–244.11, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
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