ꜣḫ jb
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
ꜣḫ (“to be effective or useful”) + jb (“heart, mind”), thus literally ‘to be effective of heart’.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑx ib/
- Conventional anglicization: akh ib
Verb[edit]
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compound
- to be(come) well-disposed or serviceably minded (+ n: toward) [18th Dynasty]
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 13.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4