sn-tꜣ

Egyptian

FWOTD – 7 August 2019

Etymology

sn (“to kiss, to smell”) +‎ tꜣ (“land, ground”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /sanˈtaʀ/ → /sanˈtaʀ/ → /sənˈtaʔ/ → /sənˈtaʔ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /sanˈtaʀ/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /sanˈtaʀ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /sənˈtaʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /sənˈtaʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛn tɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: sen-ta

Verb

 compound

1. (intransitive) to prostrate oneself, to kowtow
   • 18th Dynasty, Great Hymn to Osiris, Stela of Amenmose (Louvre C 286), line 6:

     jmjw dwꜣt m sn-tꜣ ṯztjw m ksw

     Those in the afterworld kiss the earth, and those in the desert hills bow down.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sn-tꜣ  

sn-tꜣ	sn-tꜣ
	[Middle and New Kingdom]
	abbreviation

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 154.8–154.24
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 230