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it's a transliteration from a language that's not written in latin alphabet. so all of the combinations you mentioned probably mean that historical region (and
by slim 6y ago
it's a transliteration from a language that's not written in latin alphabet. so all of the combinations you mentioned probably mean that historical region (and his name too, like you suspected)
- jdmichal 6y agoIt's worse than that. Ancient Egyptian only wrote consonants. Those are the "Egyptological" transliterations, which converts consonants to vowels and then inserts extra vowels to make them pronounceable to the (mostly British at the time) Egyptologists. The actual written names are "tꜣ-stj" and "nḥsj". That is, /tʔ stj/ and /nħsj/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language#Egyptological_pronunciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language#Egyptologica...