Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

106 EGYPTIAN FUNEREAL INSCRIPTIONS

Uici, puerperium.
UJ<ljuuci , primogenitus.
Uoci, ventrem gerere.
Uecl<l, obstetrix.
lte-ce, vitulus.

The Egyptian forms are as follows":—

mesu, or Sg^^/R mesi, to bring

forth.

(f[^X mesu, the son of.

n\ f »X mes'calves-

The root enters into the composition of many-
royal names, beginning with the XVIIIth Dynasty.
It is true that the first two kings of the Xllth
Dynasty, Amenemha I and Usersen I, have the
nonor ific titles of J | V*

nem mesu, and \ (jj \^ anch
mesu, respectively, but these words are differently
compounded from the names of the XVIIIth
Dynasty.

The first of these is (^=*\[) lj A-ha-mes, and

amongst his family we find (j P Ouat-mes (masc),
^ (jj P Am en-mes (masc), o

1 Ra-mes (masc), and
|_j (jj Ka-mes (fern.). The name of Thothmes is

written (H J Tet-mes; and we find also two

princes, one bearing the name of | Ka-mes;

the other that of \ <=> f)C| \ (jj P Meriu-mes, and at a
later period we have a prince simply (jj p Mes.

In all these names the verb (jj P enters into the
compound in its simple form, without addition of a
vowel or inflection of any kind, and this is observed