Fromꜣḫ(“to be(come) effective, useful, splendid”) +m(“in”) +jb(“heart”), literally“to be effective in (someone’s) heart”.
compound
- (with favoring person attached tojb as possessor) tofind favour with (someone), to be(come) thought ofhighly by (someone)
c. 1859BCE – 1840BCE,
The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 106–107:
[1]- ꜣḫ.n(.j)m jb.f mr.n.f wj rḫ.n.f qn.n.j
- Ifound favor with him and he loved me when he found out how I had prevailed.
- ^Allen, James Peter (2015)Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works of the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, pages95–96
