tp-ꜥ
Egyptian
Etymology
tp (“atop”) + ꜥ (“arm”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɛp ɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: tep-a
Preposition
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- (temporally) before
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 101–103:
- ḏꜥ pr(.w) jw.n m wꜣḏ-wr tp-ꜥ sꜣḥ.n tꜣ
- A stormwind emerged while we were at sea, before we could set foot on land.
- (spatially) before, in front of
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tp-ꜥ
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| tp-ꜥw | |||
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Noun
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m
- forebear, ancestor
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 282.1–282.17
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 297