r-jb
Egyptian
Etymology
r (“mouth”) + jb (“heart”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the mouth of the heart’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɛr ib/
- Conventional anglicization: er-ib
Noun
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m
- stomach
Inflection
Declension of r-jb (masculine)
singular | r-jb |
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dual | rwj-jb |
plural | rw-jb |
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 184.