jrj-ꜥꜣ

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian jrj-ꜥꜣ (“doorkeeper”).

Noun

⁠ m

1. doorkeeper
2. pastophorus

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: παστοφόρος (pastophóros) (calque)
  • → Latin: pastophorus
    • → English: pastophorus, pastophore

References

• “ı͗rj-ꜥꜣ (lemma ID dm38)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Friedhelm Hoffmann and Joachim Friedrich Quack (2014), “Pastophoros” in A. M. Dodson, J. J. Johnston, W. Monkhouse (Hg.), A good scribe and an exceedingly wise man: Studies in Honour of W. J. Tait (GHP Egyptology 21), London, pages 127—155.

Egyptian

Etymology

jrj (“keeper”) +‎ ꜥꜣ (“door”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘keeper of the door’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iri ɑːʔɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: iri-aa

Noun

 m

1. doorkeeper

Inflection

Declension of jrj-ꜥꜣ (masculine)

singular	jrj-ꜥꜣ
dual	jrjwj-ꜥꜣ
plural	jrjw-ꜥꜣ

Descendants

• Demotic: ⁠ (jrj-ꜥꜣ)
  • → Ancient Greek: παστοφόρος (pastophóros) (calque)
    • → Latin: pastophorus
      • → English: pastophorus, pastophore

References

• “jr.j-ꜥꜣ (lemma ID 28730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 252.