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noun
a type of hieroglyph that functions similarly to a phonogram, representing a series of consonants, but is unable to function autonomously and must follow other phonograms that together represent the same consonants
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Egyptology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see phonetic, determinative.
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History
The Egyptological sense was apparently coined by Alan Gardiner in his 1927–1957 Egyptian Grammar.
