ꜣḫ jb

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣḫ (“to be effective or useful”) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”), thus literally ‘to be effective of heart’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑx ib/
- Conventional anglicization: akh ib

Verb

compound

to be(come) well-disposed or serviceably minded (+ n: toward) [18th Dynasty]

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 13.13
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4

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