sḫm-jr.f

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Egyptian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sḫm (power, powerful) +‎ jr (do, act) +‎ .f (third-person masculine singular suffix pronoun); the exact interpretation is not altogether clear. Taking sḫm as a noun and jr.f as a modifier, a meaning such as ‘acting power’ is sometimes suggested;[1] this, however, fails to explain the suffix pronoun, which rather suggests an interpretation of jr as a relative form instead of a participle, in which case the sense would be something like ‘the power that he makes’. Alternatively, some have taken sḫm as a participle and jr as a writing of the noun jrw (visible form) for an overall sense of ‘powerful of visible form’.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ssxmxmir
f

 m

  1. potentate, very powerful person or ruler, especially one of the feudal lords of the Middle Kingdom [Pyramid Texts to 18th Dynasty]

Usage notes[edit]

Commonly found in parallel with nswt (king).

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References[edit]

  • sḫm-jri̯⸗f (lemma ID 142320)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 250.1–250.4
  1. ^ As in Grandet, Pierre (2013) “The Ramesside State” in Ancient Egyptian Administration, ed. Juan Carlos Moreno García, page 834
  2. ^ As in Darnell, Colleen Manassa (2007) The Late Egyptian Underworld: Sarcophagi and Related Texts from the Nectanebid Period