ꜣbḏw
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Egyptian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ʀVˈbaːcʼVw/ → /ʀVˈbaːtʼVw/ → /ʔəˈbaːtʼə/ → /ʔəˈβoːtʼ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑbɛd͡ʒuː/
- Conventional anglicization: abedju
Etymology 1[edit]
Uncertain. A development from ꜣbw (“elephant”) + ḏw (“mountain”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘elephant of the mountain’ in reference to the local topography, has been suggested.
Proper noun[edit]
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m./f. topo.
- the city of Abydos
- (metonymically) the afterlife
- 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:
- ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw(j) m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw
- May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great of Abydos.
- 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbḏw
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Noun[edit]
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m
- (hapax) Abydenes, the people of Abydos collectively [26th Dynasty]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
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m
- a kind of fish, often used medicinally, and mythologically said to pilot the solar barque or, in later times, to be a form of the sun god [since the medical papyri]
Usage notes[edit]
The existing pictures of this fish are too conventionalized to establish its species with any certainty. It has been suggested to be quite similar to the Nile perch, but with a crescent caudal fin.
Inflection[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbḏw
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 8.23–9.2
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3
- Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 12
- Dawson, Warren R. (1933) “Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts—II” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 19, p. 137
- Wegner, Josef (2007) “From Elephant-Mountain to Anubis-Mountain? A Theory on the Origins and Development of the Name Abdju” in The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of David O’Connor, volume 2, pages 459–476
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 39
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