Exercises for Lesson 5

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Since our lesson only showed you a handful of the many multiliterals in Egyptian, the following questions ask only about a few common and important ones which were given in the lesson.

Question 1: Write each of these glyphs with appropriate phonetic complement(s) and transliteration.

  1. π“…­
  2. π“…‘
  3. 𓍃
  4. 𓏠
  5. 𓁹
Answer 1
  1. π“…­π“„Ώ z꜒
  2. 𓃀𓅑𓄿 b꜒
  3. 𓏏𓐰𓍃 tm
  4. π“ π“°π“ˆ– or 𓏠𓋔 mn
  5. 𓁹 jr (not 𓁹𓐰𓂋! jr is one glyph which is written standalone.)

Question 2: Translate the following phrases into Egyptian, both hieroglyphs and transliteration.

  1. his place
  2. She knows.
  3. Ptah speaks.
  4. I sail downstream.
  5. You speak. (for a woman “you”)
  6. The sun shines.
  7. in this, your place (for a plural “your”)
  8. regarding this, their joy
  9. this, my boat, together with their boat
Answer 2
  1. 𓃀𓅱𓆑 bw.f
  2. π“‚‹π“°π“π“œπ“‹΄ rαΈ«.s
  3. 𓆓𓐳𓂧π“Šͺπ“°π“π“Ž›π“€­ ḏd ptαΈ₯
  4. π“π“°π“‚§π“Š›π“€€ αΈ«d(j).j
  5. 𓆓𓐳𓂧𓍿 ḏd.αΉ―
  6. π“…±π“ƒ€π“ˆ–π“°π“‡Άπ“‚‹π“°π“‚π“‡³ wbn r꜀
  7. π“…“π“ƒ€π“…±π“Ώπ“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯π“Šͺπ“°π“ˆ–
    m bw.αΉ―n pn
  8. π“‚‹π“‚‹π“°π“ˆ™π“…±π“΄π“π“‚‰π“°π“₯π“‹΄π“ˆ–π“°π“₯π“π“°π“ˆ–
    r rΕ‘wt.sn tn
  9. 𓂧𓐰π“Šͺπ“±π“π“Š›π“€€π“π“°π“ˆ–π“Ž›π“ˆ–π“°π“‚π“‚§π“°π“Šͺπ“±π“π“Š›π“‹΄π“ˆ–π“°π“₯
    dpt.j tn αΈ₯n꜀ dpt.sn

Question 3: Transliterate the following phrases and translate them into English. If any of the answers have a pronoun “you” or “your”, make sure to note whether the “you” is masculine, feminine, or plural.

  1. π“π“°π“‚§π“Š›π“‹΄π“ˆ–π“°π“₯
  2. π“†“π“³π“‚§π“ˆ–π“°π“†“π“‹΄π“…ͺπ“€€
  3. π“…“π“‚‹π“°π“Ž‘π“‡³π“Ώπ“°π“ˆ–π“°π“₯π“Šͺπ“°π“ˆ–
  4. π“Œ΄π“°π“Ήπ“„Ώπ“„Ώπ“Šͺπ“°π“π“Ž›π“€­
  5. π“‡‹π“…±π“Šƒπ“°π“π“π“Ž›π“ˆ–π“°π“‚π“‡‹π“‚π“Ž›π“‡ΉοΈ€π“…“π“ŽΌπ“°π“‚‹π“Ž›π“‡°
  6. 𓂋𓐰𓂝𓇳𓅓π“Šͺπ“±π“π“°π“‡―π“‡‹π“…±π“ˆ–π“°π“₯π“…“π“‚‹π“°π“ˆ™π“…±π“΄π“π“‚‰π“œ
Answer 3
  1. αΈ«d(j).sn
    They sail downstream.
  2. ḏd nḏs
    The commoner speaks.
  3. m rk.αΉ―n pn
    in this, your time (plural “your”)
  4. m꜒꜒ ptαΈ₯
    Ptah sees.
  5. jw zt αΈ₯n꜀ j꜀αΈ₯ m grαΈ₯
    The woman is with the moon in the night.
  6. r꜀ m pt jw.n m rőwt
    When the sun is in the sky, we are in joy.
    (Bonus point if you put the clauses together like that. If you answered as two separate sentences “The sun is in sky. We are in joy.” you weren’t wrong.)

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