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Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈkʼuːbVb/ → /ˈkʼuːbVb/ → /kʼuːbə/ → /kʼeːβ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɡɛbɛb/
- Conventional anglicization: gebeb
Noun
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m
Inflection
Proper noun
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m
- the god Geb (literally “Earth”)
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 25:
- wḏ.n n.k jt.k gbb jr.n.tw ḫft ḏdt.n.f
- Your father Geb has decreed in your favor, and it has been done according to his word (literally, “what he said”).
Descendants
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 148.
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 164.6–164.7
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