Talk:Sobekneferu

The meaning of "Sobeknefru"
Does this name means "the beauty of Sobek" OR "she who shows the beauty of Sobek"?1.Erfolg (talk) 15:05, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * If "Sobek" comes last, it means "the beauty of Sobek" (noun (possessed) + noun (possessor)). If "neferu" comes last, the name means "Sobek is beautiful" (noun + verb in the stative, also called old perfective ). In the latter case the vowels should be switched around, see my following comment. Hieronymus Illinensis (talk) 10:43, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * According to Egyptologist Dominic Perry, it simply translates to "Sobek is beautiful".

Also, shouldn't she be called "king" not "queen"? In Ancient Egypt, a ruler is denoted as king (long before the use of the word pr-aa (pharaoh) to specifically mean the king), regardless of gender. Queen denotes that she would be the wife of a king. JanderVK (talk) 12:44, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Article title
The vocalization of her name should be "Sebeknofru", as given e.g., by Gardiner, not "Sobekneferu". The reason is that the predicate was stressed, so in a name consisting of noun + verb in stative (old perfective), the verb gets the full vowel o, and the noun's vowel is reduced to e or a ; for the same reason, Thutmose is more correct than Thothmes. Sebeknofru's name appears in Greek as Skemiophris, a little distorted but showing the e-o vowel sequence.Hieronymus Illinensis (talk) 10:43, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Terminology in the lead paragraph.
I am possibly being over-sensitive, but the phrase "reigned as Pharaoh" in the lead paragraph diminishes the stature of Sobeknefru. I didn't do an exhaustive search, but for several of the male rulers surrounding her reign, they are named as Pharaoh, not "reigned as" or "ruled as". The article on Hatshepsut also states that she was pharaoh. Should this be changed to conform to the pattern of other articles? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Catbirdfan (talk • contribs) 18:53, 7 April 2020 (UTC)