B3

B3

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BยทWoman and her occupations

Transliteration

Logogrammsjp๊œฅp๊œฅms๊žฝmsmsi
logogramdeterminativeother

Variants (3)

Meanings

Representing a woman giving birth, in the posture that would typically be adopted by Egyptian women in such a scenario (crouching over birth bricks, though the bricks themselves are not depicted).

1
logogram

Logogram for msj (โ€œto give birthโ€).

Represents a complete word or concept

2
determinative

Determinative for giving birth, as in msj (โ€œto give birthโ€), p๊œฅp๊œฅ (โ€œto give birthโ€), etc.

Clarifies the meaning of other signs

3
determinative

Classifier birth

Clarifies the meaning of other signs

4
other

Woman, pregnant, seated, both knees down, right arm forward, angling down towards the knee, left arm hanging beside the body, with the head and arms of a child coming from the legs.

Has a specialized or contextual function

5
logogram

Logogram: Msj โ€” give birth

Represents a complete word or concept

Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus

๐“‡‹๐“ฒ ๐“‹ด ๐“‚‹ ๐“„Ÿ๐“‹ด๐“๐“’

๊žฝw =s r msiฬฏ.t

Sie wird gebรคren.

1845 BCE โ€“ 1773 BCEearlier Egyptian

๐“‚œ ๐“‚‹๐“…“๐“น ๐“€€ ๐“ˆ– ๐“๐“†‘๐“„ฟ ๐“„Ÿ๐“‹ด๐“๐“’

n rmiฬฏ =๊žฝ n tf๊œฃ ms.t

Ich habe nicht geweint um jene dort (im Jenseits), die (schon) geboren hat (d.h. um meine Frau).

1939 BCE โ€“ 1760 BCEearlier Egyptian

๐“‹ท๐“„ฟ๐“€ ๐“„Ÿ๐“‹ด๐“๐“‹ด๐“ญ๐“€” ๐“…“ ๐“ˆž๐“๐“„ฐ ๐“ˆ–๐“ ๐“’

s๊žฝ๊œฃ msiฬฏ.t๊žฝ=s๊žฝ m ๊žฝd.t n(.๊žฝ).t bk๊œฃ.t

Erkennen einer, die gebรคren wird, am Uterus der Schwangeren:

1845 BCE โ€“ 1773 BCEearlier Egyptian

Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) โ€” translations in German.