Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coffin texts

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables: coffin -texts
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.

Etymology

Calque of German Sargtexte.

Questions

What does coffin texts mean?: A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.
Where does coffin texts come from?: Calque of German Sargtexte.

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