r(ꜣ)w(plural ofr(ꜣ)(“mouth, utterance”)) +nw(masculine plural ofnj(“of”)) +prt(infinitive ofprj(“to come forth”)) +m(“in, during, from”) +hrw(“day”). The literal meaning is thus ‘Utterances of Coming Forth in the Day’. This is traditionally interpreted to mean ‘coming forth by/into day’, but note that every other use ofm withprj takes the meaning of ‘from, out of’ rather than ‘in’, suggesting the intended meaning may be ‘coming forthfrom the day’.
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- Book of the Dead
- James P[eter] Allen (2010),Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page322.
