Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs

𓂻D54 · walking legs — classifier for motion words

walking

Where it comes from

Two legs caught mid-stride — a classifierEgyptology's name for a determinative — the silent sign closing a word to say what kind of thing it is: person, speech, plural, idea, silent: it follows verbs of motion and tells the reader this word moves. Come, go, enter, hurry, flee: whatever the verb, the little legs walk after it.

How to remember it

Walking legs at the end of a word are the script’s stage direction: exit, moving. If you see them, something just went somewhere — read back to find out what.

In the wild

Piece by piece:

• Wsjr — Osiris, in a late spelling: throne, sun, and the divine falcon
• ꜥq≡f — he enters: and there are the legs, walking the verb in
• r≡tn — against you

A god on the move, and the classifierEgyptology's name for a determinative — the silent sign closing a word to say what kind of thing it is: person, speech, plural, idea moves with him. The silent signs are taught in 101’s chapter 03.