Learn hieroglyphics: nb ir(t) xt [hieroglyph-a-day in 4K]

[@Ai_mallu-]

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[@obilatiwa]

Thank you for the quick lesson

[@Donny.C.wlWilliams]

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[@lyra2112]

Why is the unwritten [t] put in the vocalization and transliteration of " ir " so that it is " ir [t] ? 🤔 In my self taught journey of learning to read hieroglyphs these conventions of adding stuff not there, in brackets completely baffles me. Help!

[@elguido]

I guess it is so that the verb agrees in gender with the object(?), "Thing". An ending with T is femenine

[@lyra2112]

@@elguido thank you for a reasonable answer. my quandary is that it is an added convention by modern academics. why add what the ancients did not have?

[@elguido]

@@lyra2112 Ah, but they did add it, just not consistently hahaha. One of the main struggles of learning Egyptian is how much flexibility you need to have. They omit letters, change the symbol position, even sometimes change the symbol for another to make it more aesthetic. For example, the word for father is written "itf", but scholars are extremely sure that the F wasn't pronounced. The word for pharaoh is found written as "swtn" "swt" or "sw", but scholars are sure it was pronounced "nsw". Yeah, ridiculous

[@lyra2112]

@@elguido So there is still some deduction going on. Thank you!! I'm not crazy lol.

[@jounikauppinen7377]

I think the t here means ir is in infinitive form. Xt (khet) can be masculine or feminine, masculine when it means "something, anything" and feminine when it means "the thing, possession or property".