tꜣ-mrj

Etymology
Traditionally read and analyzed as, thus literally ‘beloved land’. However, in part due to the unusual writing of the latter word, alternative readings have recently been proposed, such as James P. Allen’s suggestion of, literally ‘land of the hoe’, later revised to ‘canal-land’, or Timofey Shmakov’s , literally ‘land in flowering’ (i.e. ‘Flowery/Blossomy Land’). In these cases, the in the word would not mark a separate consonant but rather a sound change of  to, as is otherwise common in words such as.

Proper noun

 * 1) Egypt