ꜥrqy

Egyptian

Etymology

From ꜥrq (“to tie on, to complete, to stop”) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ʕVlˈq’iw/ → /ʕVlˈq’ij/ → /ʕalˈq’eʔ/ → /ʕalˈq’eʔ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕVlˈq’iw/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕVlˈq’ij/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕalˈq’eʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕalˈq’eʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːrkiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: arqy

Noun

 m

1. last day of the month [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥrqy (masculine)

singular	ꜥrqy
dual	ꜥrqywj
plural	ꜥrqyw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥrqy  

ꜥrq	ꜥrqw	ꜥrqy	ꜥrqy	ꜥrqy	ꜥrqy	ꜥrq
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ꜥrq-rnpt

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥrqy
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲗⲕⲉ (alke), ⲁⲗⲕⲏ (alkē)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲗⲕⲉ (alke), ⲁⲗⲕⲏ (alkē)

References

• “ꜥrq.y (lemma ID 39740)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 212.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 46
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 107.
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 4