rꜥ

Demotic

Etymology

From Egyptian rꜥ (“sun, Ra”).

Noun

rꜥ m

  1. the sun

Descendants

Egyptian

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic; the source etymon has been very tentatively reconstructed as *raʿ- (“sun, god”) by Orel and Stolbova (and Militarev and Stolbova’s database based on their work),[1] connecting it to Geji rii, lii, Sha are (“sky, cloud”), Ron riʔ (“cloud”), Bidiyo rāyà (“god”), and Mukulu rā́ (“god, sky”), and a connection with Arabic رائِعَة‎ (rāˀiˁaᵗ, “daylight”, literally “sun grown with vigor or height”) and Arabic رِيعْ‎ (rīˁ, “high place, elevated”).[2]

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈɾiːʕuw/ → /ˈɾiːʕuw/ → /ˈɾiːʕəʔ/ → /ˈɾeːʕ/[3]

Noun


 m

  1. sun
  2. day (period of daylight)

Inflection
Declension of rꜥ (masculine u-stem)
singular rꜥ
dual rꜥwj
plural rꜥw

Derived terms

Proper noun


 m

  1. the god Ra (literally “Sun”)

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*raʿ-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 2088, page 444
  2. “ريع” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1201-1202, meaning to increase, to augment, to grow stronger, to be vigorous, a high or elevated land.
  3. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
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