tꜣ-wr

Egyptian

Etymology

tꜣ (“land”) +‎ wr (“great”), thus literally ‘The Great Land’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɑ wɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: ta-wer

Proper noun

m

Ta-wer, the eighth nome of Upper Egypt, containing the cities of Thinis and Abydos

References

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 258

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