yr-ꜥꜣ

yr-ꜥꜣ

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian jtrw ꜥꜣ. Synchronically equivalent to yr (“river, canal”) +‎ ꜥꜣ (“great”).

Proper noun

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ m

1. the Nile

Alternative forms

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (yꜥr-ꜥꜣ)

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲓⲉⲣⲟ (iero)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲁⲣⲟ (iaro)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓⲉⲣⲁ (iera)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲉⲣⲟ (eiero), ⲓⲉⲣⲟ (iero)
• → Old Persian: 𐎱𐎡𐎼𐎠𐎺 (Pirāva)
• → Achaemenid Elamite: [script needed] ([^hPi-ra]-ma)
• → Akkadian:
  • → Neo-Assyrian: [script needed] (Jaruˀu)

References

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 50
• Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001) The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago‎, volume Y (01.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 12
• Mahlich, Elena. "The Appellation of the River Nile in Achaemenid Texts". Egyptian Loanwords in Languages of the Ancient Near East. Ménant (1897), 131-157.