r n kmt

Egyptian

Etymology

r(ꜣ) (“speech”) +‎ n(j) (“of”) +‎ kmt (“Egypt”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈɾaʀ nij ˈkuːmat/ → /ˈɾaʀ nij ˈkuːmaʔ/ → /ˈɾaʔ nə ˈkuːma/ → /ˈɾaʔ nə ˈkeːmə/

Noun
r
Z1		 n
km		 mt
O49

 m

  1. (rare) the Egyptian language [Middle Kingdom literature]

Usage notes

This term is only attested in versions of the Story of Sinuhe. Despite its presentation in popular literature as the basic native term for the Egyptian language, there is little evidence that this term had any particularly wide currency, or was anything but an ad hoc creation by the author of Sinuhe.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of r n kmt  
r
Z1		 n
km		 t
O49
r n kmt

Synonyms
  • (Late Egyptian) mdwt kmt
  • (Late Egyptian) mdwt rmṯ n kmt

References
  • “rʾ-n-km.t (lemma ID 92900)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 391.25
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 127.15
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