ꜣꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑʔɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: aa

Noun

 m

1. mound of ruins [Middle to New Kingdom]

Usage notes

Possibly, following Gardiner’s suggestion, this word may be merely a variant writing of jꜣt (“mound”).

Inflection

Declension of ꜣꜣ (masculine)

singular	ꜣꜣ
dual	ꜣꜣwj
plural	ꜣꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣꜣ  

jꜣꜣ	jꜣt
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 1, 7
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 2.6
• Gardiner, Alan (1948) “The First Two Pages of the Wörterbuch” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34, p. 15