) seems to have the root-idea of “word;” as if it were applied to the text of the blood-covenant.
The amulet as constructed for the mummy, was stained with the water or liquid of the tree called ankh am (
). The amulet itself, according to Brugsch, was also called ankh merer (
). But ankh (
) means either to live (the ordinary meaning), or to swear, to make oath (more rarely), and merer (
) is a reduplicated form of mer (