nb-tꜣwj

Egyptian

Etymology

From nb (“lord”) +‎ tꜣwj (“the Two Lands”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘Lord of the Two Lands’, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˌnibuwˈtaʀwaj/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛb tɑuːi/
- Conventional anglicization: neb-tawi

Noun

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a common pharaonic epithet

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 68.

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