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Egyptian Determinants are similar to Sumerian determinatives
Determinants as parts of Nouns help disambiguate the alphabetical reading of a word.
New York ๐
New York City
Even though they are not always spoken we postulate that they had always one or more phonetic values.
complements
It is not always evident whether the determinants repeat the foregoing letters or complement them:
๐ฒ ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ธ
Schnur๐ฒHaar
- SchnurrHaar = whisker
- Schnur Haar = string cord
- Schnur := Haar
Because of this ambiguity it is not always certain what the true reading of a determinant is, and we assume that many readings of determinants in the current literature about pharaonic Egyptian are confused:
We have the suspicion that the value of determinants is usually assumed to be known and the letters or signs proceeding them mostly act as qualifiers:
๐ Tier deer der (leather) :
- ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ช L'BanTier
- ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฎ el Panther
- ๐๐๐ ฑ๐ฐ El'phanter
Preterminants are also spoken in Chinese, where ๐ โ ๅช:
ไธๅช่่ ๐
๐๐๐ฒ๐ฎ
ZEW Zรคhleinheitswort
we see how Determinants can also act to complete the previous letters.
๐ ๐ ๐
ฑ ๐ด ๐ โbuildโ = cons+struck๐
๐๐๐๐ kurio, chi๐ child, ืlad ืืื ๐
๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ chird / child scird ัฅti: kid + !!
Terminal symbols of nouns
Most ubiquitous abstract terminal symbols are:
๐ 'ter' general terminal symbol for nouns, verbs,etc see
๐ฅ III Terminal symbol for plural nouns, verbs etc see numbers
๐พ Terminal symbol for โterโ(terra,terrain) see ๐ฟTA/ter, al๐TER altair altar
also see dual plural grammar suffixes
Duplication / spelled out
๐ฉ ๐ ๐ greet โ ๐ฉ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ | greeting ! | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ spelled out +++
Complement rule
Words are often spelled out with different readings to the determinant:
๐ฅ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
ญ kite (krait โcry)
๐ฅ ๐ ๐ ๐
kite
๐ ๐ ๐
ฑ ๐ค ๐จ | wasp | Biene ! +++ DE โ / biรผn / bien see ๐
ฑ
๐ ๐
ก ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฒ ๐
ญ | wasp | bvรกsp vespa (๐๐ช๐ spรคt) โ โ bee โ ๐
ญben/bint/bat (son/daughter)
๐ ๐ ก ๐ฟ ๐ ๐บ phallus, penis ๐ธ โ phoenix ๐ ก
๐ด ๐ ๐ พ 1. Graugans 2. Grangst > Gans 3. ๐ด ๐ goose [๐ด=gamma ๐=os]
Possible confusions of specifiers with word reading:
๐ ๐ก ๐ก ๐ธ | hair | back/black-hair?
Bad Linguistics
In the past some mistakes were made by premature identification of alternate signs in words with the same (or similar) meanings, e.g. :
Two words for sky
sky ๐ช ๐ ๐ฏ
sky ๐ท ๐ ๐ฏ
may lead to an unwary identification of ๐ท as ๐ช.
This should never be done since it is possible that these are completely different words that just happen to have a final (middle?) ๐ :
๐ฏ sky, heaven
๐ช ๐ ๐ฏ sky, heaven
๐ท ๐ ๐ฏ sky, heaven
๐ท ๐ ๐ ๐ฏ sky, heaven
๐ฟ ๐ ๐ ๐ฏ heaven, sky
This kind of identification is however rampant in the reconstruction of phonetic sign values, often because we just dont have the phonetic value for many extra alphabetic signs, which value was usually assumed to be known and rarly spelled out, e.g.
๐ ๐ก east wind was known to represent the longer form ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ก ( โ wind bend levante )
The extra '๐ ๐' could also be a specific 'kind' of east wind, could belong to ๐ etcโฆ
Known silence determinants
๐ฉ in ๐ฉ๐ณ GEMEโ (Minna)kurva
determinant
supportive noun๐ nam โ ๐ in ๐๐๐ nam.ri.ri ๐ ๐ ๐ ฑ ๐ ๐ : ๐ โขder โขter in ๐๐๐ terror ุฐูุนูุฑ แธuสฟr tmerr ฯฯฯฮผฮฟฯ trรณmos ฮดฮตแฟฮผฮฑ deรฎma ืึตืืึธื eimรก ๐ ฑ ๐ ๐ ๐ โขha ื in ๐๐๐ horror ููููู hawl แฝฯฯฯฮดฮฏฮฑ orrhลdรญa
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complicated bound๐ ๐ ๐ด ๐ป laonge = langue :
๐ ๐ ๐ด ๐ป theonge = tongue :
๐ ๐ ๐ก ๐ Zunge (tongue) ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐