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cduret
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 Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:34 am Post subject: hieroglyphic symbol of love |
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hello,
I'm looking for the Love symbol in ancient egyptian hieroglyph.
After few researchs on the internet, I understood that the hoe-sign was the symbol of love. Is it true ?
Otherwise how could be best written love in hieroglyphs ?
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Daughter_Of_SETI
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Love in hieroglyphs:
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| Interesting it's female |
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| DaveB wrote: | | Interesting it's female |
It has nothing to do with "love" being particularly feminine. It has everything to do with generic concepts usually getting a '-t' ending regardless of their actual association. This occurs in other languages as well.
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Aw, come on, Bob. And here I always thought you were a hopeless romantic. 
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Hello everyone 
I think 'mrwt' is translate as 'love' which it's a noun, right?
if you want the verb of 'love' you should cut 'w & t' out from 'mrwt', it's become 'mri', the 'love' in verb. 
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| kmt_sesh wrote: | | Aw, come on, Bob. And here I always thought you were a hopeless romantic. |
Well, you're half right.
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| BobManske wrote: | | kmt_sesh wrote: | | Aw, come on, Bob. And here I always thought you were a hopeless romantic. |
Well, you're half right. |
 Ah, so you are a romantic.
Damn, you crack me up.
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| Detectiveoat13 wrote: | Hello everyone
I think 'mrwt' is translate as 'love' which it's a noun, right?
if you want the verb of 'love' you should cut 'w & t' out from 'mrwt', it's become 'mri', the 'love' in verb. |
yeah you're right, it's just mri for the verb, but the i is weak so it is often left out;
for example mr=f means he loves / he will love
(hoe, mouth, horned viper)
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So what is :
mr r t (man with hand to mouth)
(sorry I don't know how to write glyphs in this post)
I came across this in a text I'm studying?
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| rjpaton wrote: | So what is :
mr r t (man with hand to mouth)
(sorry I don't know how to write glyphs in this post)
I came across this in a text I'm studying?
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Did it look like this?
if it did that is mr k meaning you love, or you will love (femenine you)[/img]
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sorry that was wrong, that one above means mr k you love / you will love in the MASCULINE, the femenine would look like so;
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mr t you love / you will love (femenine)
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It looked just like the arrangement in the pic in the reply from Daughter_of_Seti above (11 back - Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:28 pm ) except with the 'chick' missing.
BTW - what is the best procedure for putting images of hieroglyphs in my replies. Do I have to host the pictures online somewhere or is there an easier way?
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| rjpaton wrote: | It looked just like the arrangement in the pic in the reply from Daughter_of_Seti above (11 back - Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:28 pm ) except with the 'chick' missing.
BTW - what is the best procedure for putting images of hieroglyphs in my replies. Do I have to host the pictures online somewhere or is there an easier way?
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oh darn of course sorry, the form mrwt, which daughter of seti posted is the noun love, if you saw it without the chick then it could have still been the noun with the w missing as often happens.
I used something called http://www.aegyptisch.de/glyphomat.pl
and then hosted it online yeah[/i]
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so, can someone show me what an accurate depiction of the word love (as a VERB) would appear in hieroglyphics??
i am considering getting this as a tattoo if i like the way it looks. |
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