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𓌙
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Egyptian
Glyph origin
Representing a throwstick or, in its function representing foreignness, a club as a foreign weapon of war.
Symbol
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- Logogram for qmꜣ (“to throw, to create”).
- Phonetic determinative for ṯn, as in ṯnj (“where”).
- Determinative in ꜥmꜥꜣt (“throwstick”).
- Determinative in qmꜣ (“to throw, to create”).
- Determinative for foreign countries and people, as in ṯḥnw (“Libya”), ꜥꜣm (“Asiatic”), nḥsj (“Nubian”).
- alternative form of 𓆱 (
) as a phonetic determinative for ḏꜥ, as in ḏꜥr (“to seek out”). - alternative form of 𓊧 (
) in mjnj (“to moor”). - alternative form of 𓌘 (
) - alternative form of 𓐨 (
) in sbj (“rebel”).
Descendants
References
- Gardiner, Alan (1957), Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
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