Egyptian
Etymology
From jmj (“(one) being in”) + sꜣ (“back”), literally “the one in the back”. Other interpretations have also been suggested, for example taking the second term as zꜣ (“protection”) or zꜣ (“phyle, troop”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (rare) attendant, guard
Inflection
Declension of jmj-sꜣ (masculine)
| singular
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jmj-sꜣ
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| dual
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jmjwj-sꜣ, jmwj-sꜣ
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| plural
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jmjw-sꜣ, jmw-sꜣ
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-sꜣ
References
- “jm.j-sꜣ (lemma ID 851087)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 75.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19