Question 1: Regarding the two glyphs ๐ จ and ๐ ช:
- What are the two birds depicted?
- What is the detail which can tell them apart?
- What is the significance of each bird as a hieroglyph?
- We provided several mnemonics to remember which one has which meaning. Give any of those.
Answer 1
- A swallow and a sparrow.
- The swallow has a forked tail, while the sparrow has a rounded one.
- The swallow is the biliteral wr in the word “great”, while the sparrow is a determinative for words indicating that something is small, insignificant, or bad.
- We suggested several mnemonics to choose from:
- The swallow’s tail has two points and is thus “twice as good”.
- The sparrow is described as not very important in the Bible.
Question 2: What does the glyph ๐ depict, and what is its significance?
Answer 2
It is an overhead view of a crossroads, and it indicates that the word it’s part of is a settlement like a village, town, or city.
Question 3: How many determinatives are there in this word: ๐๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ ? Give the significance of each one, however many or few there are.
Answer 3
Two. The first is a child sucking its finger, representing youth; the second is a seated woman, representing a female human being; together, they indicate a young woman.
Question 4: The words for “illness” and “pyramid” are both transliterated mr. Write the two words.
Answer 4
“illness” is ๐๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ ช, and “pyramid” is ๐๐ ๐๐ด.
Be sure that the bird you drew for the determinative of “illness” is a sparrow, with a rounded tail, and not a swallow, with a forked tail!