Gardiner G17

An owl

G ยท Birds

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Readings and pronunciation

m
Phonogram ยท uniliteral
[1][2]
Pronunciation
m
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Example words

m
๐“…“
Spelled with G17

in, from, as (preposition)

Role: Phonogram

[1]
mn
๐“ 
๐“ˆ–
Spelled with Y5, N35

remain, endure

Role: Compare

Written without the owl: the game board gives both sounds.

[3]

Sources

[1]

Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.

Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).

Cited for: Sign-list G17

[2]

Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).

Cited for: U+13153

[3]

Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.

Cited for: s.v. mn