gbb

gbb

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kaytetye.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kaytetye terms

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɛbɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: gebeb

1. earth, ground

1. the god Geb (literally “Earth”)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 25:

     wḏ.n n.k jt.k gbb jr.n.tw ḫft ḏdt.n.f

     Your father Geb has decreed in your favor, and it has been done according to his word (literally, “what he said”).

• → Ancient Greek: Κῆβ (Kêb)
• Coptic: ⲅⲉⲃ (geb)
• → English: Geb

• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 148.
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 164.6–164.7