Ancient Egyptian Lexicon

Alice C. Linsley

Here is an alphabetically arranged list of ancient Egyptian words and roots. It has taken me some time to compose this lexicon and I hope that it will be helpful to students of Biblical Anthropology.

akhet – the horizon

ash - invocation
brk - blessing

baty – the north  (cf: suten-baty – south and north)

bu – place, condition

bd or bdt – gourd, bed of gourds

deshr – red

djrt – hand (cf. djrt-ntr – hand of God)

dpt – ship

dpwt – ships

dwa – tomorrow

edjo - cobra
feh - to go away (Yoruba feh - to blow away)

ha – after, behind

hekau – magician/ lector priests

het – front (cf. akhet – horizon)

hat – moment in time  (Bantu hatua – point time/space, pace walk/step, period of time)

henâ – together with

her / hr – over, above, upon
hika - evil  (Yoruba ika - evil) 
hir - praise

horiwo – head

hpr – to come into being

hprr – that which comes into being

hpry – diety with a scarab beetle for a head
ḥm-ntr - prophets
ḥnn – phallus,  perhaps pronounced khenen (the kh is a guttural as in Hanukkah)

i – to be

iw – is/ are
imy-wnwt - hour/sky watcher
i’pw – it is
i’nw –  it is

inw – tribute
irtiu - blue (also khesbedj - blue)

ir.t – eye (cf. Yoruba iri – to see)

isw – weeds

iw – to come

jb (jib) – heart

kenit (khenet) – yellow
khau - sieve

khem (kem) – black

khenty – before, in front of

khenen (hnn) – penis/phallus
khepesh - thigh
kheper - scarab beetle

khesbedj (also irtiu) – blue

km – to bring to an end, to complete/fulfill  (Bantu koma – strength, force, power, lion)

me – unto, against

mer – love

m – in, with, by, at the time of

‘m – mother   (Northern Arabian ‘m - mother)

mau – to see

mdju ntjr – words of God (cf. djrt-ntr – hand of God)

mw or nwy – water (mu)

n – and

nmhf – green stone
nofir - good

ntr /ntjr – god/gods (Neter)

ns – tongue

nxb – sign for Upper Egypt/sedge

nxn – Onn or Heliopolis (the Falcon-City, home of Horus of the South)
nwh - to intoxicate or be drunk
pḥty - strength, power

pr – house or temple

pr pn – this house

prw – houses  (cf. O-piru - House of the Sun or temple)

qma - bull rushes

Râ pw – It is Râ (Ra it is); or He is Râ

re – father of

ro – to talk  (Yoruba ro – to think and Yoruba oro – word)

rwd – ball, sphere

sa – man

sba – star (may also mean door)

sbg - planet Mercury

sen – granary
shesep (also hedj) – white

sheut (šwt) – shadow (origins of Hebrew Sheol)

s-shr, ssr, scr – linen
sr.t - proclamation/pronouncement

ssr – corn/flax
ssn – lotus plant
sm – herb, plant

smr – companion

snb – to be healthy  (Bantu simba – health)

sut/sutn – the south  (cf. suten-baty – south and north)
swnw - doctors
tm - universe (Atum)

tr – pure
urshu - soldiers on watch

wadj – green

warih – moon

wbn – rising sun   (cf. bnbn – stone pillars, swelling)

wi – mummy

w-r-q – green

zaw – guardian

References:
The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian
E.A. Wallis Budge, An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary
Rainer Hannig, Grosses Handworterbuch Agyptisch-Deutsch
Raymond O. Faulkner, Middle Egyptian