gs-tp

Egyptian

FWOTD – 8 October 2018

Etymology

gs (“half, side”) +‎ tp (“head”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘half of the head’ or ‘side of the head’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɛs tɛp/
- Conventional anglicization: ges-tep

Noun

m

migraine headache
- c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus, lines 47.14–47.15 (Eb 250):[1]
  
  kt nt mrt m gs-tp ḏnnt nt nꜥr snwḫ ḥr mrḥt gs tp jm r jfdw hrw
  Another [remedy] for pain in a migraine: the skull of a catfish, boiled in oil/fat. Anoint the head in it over the course of four days.

Descendants

→ Ancient Greek: ἡμικρανία (hēmikranía) (calque)
- Greek: ημικρανία (imikranía)
- → Latin: hemicrania
  - Old French: migraigne
    - → Middle English: megrim
      - English: migraine
      - English: megrim
    - French: migraine

References

Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 164

Wreszinski, Walter (1913) Der Papyrus Ebers: Umschrift, Übersetzung und Kommentar (volume III of Die Medizin der alten Ägypter), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 74

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