Recordings of Egyptian words in other languages provide an additional source of evidence.
This first becomes evident when Armah names each chapter using Egyptian words.
Freud notes that mose is the Egyptian word for child.
One of the oldest Egyptian words for an ocean going boat was "Byblos ship".
Ka is also the Egyptian word for sustenance, and is associated with spirit.
The name of the goddess resembles iatet which is Egyptian word for "milk".
Nonetheless, its name - an Egyptian word for soul - may seem like a self-deprecating joke.
He kept seeing that ring; hearing those old Egyptian words finally denned aloud as he had never heard them.
Hudjefa is an ancient Egyptian word meaning "missing" or "erased".
Bennu is the Egyptian word for the mythological phoenix bird.