ḏj ꜥnḫ

Egyptian

Etymology

Perfective passive participle of rḏj (“to give”) +‎ ꜥnḫ (“life”), thus ‘given life’. Unlike other such passive participial clauses, this one has been fossilized without any resumptive pronoun (a construction like *ḏj n .f ꜥnḫ would be expected).

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi ɑːnx/
- Conventional anglicization: dji ankh

Phrase

an epithet frequently added after the name of the reigning pharaoh

Noun

m

a state of having been ‘given life (forever)’ achieved by the pharaoh

References

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 343

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