Egyptian
Etymology
From jmj (“(one) being in”) + st-ꜥ (“activity, efficaciousness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- helper, acolyte, functionary; also used as a title
- a kind of heart-shaped piece of jewelry
Inflection
Declension of jmj-st-ꜥ (masculine)
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jmj-st-ꜥ
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| dual
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jmjwj-st-ꜥ, jmwj-st-ꜥ
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| plural
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jmjw-st-ꜥ, jmw-st-ꜥ
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-st-ꜥ
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| jmj-st-ꜥ
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jmj-st-ꜥ
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in the sense ‘helper’
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References
- “jm.j-s.t-ꜥ (lemma ID 25800)”, “jm.j-s.t-ꜥ (lemma ID 855521)”, and “jm.j-s.t-ꜥ (lemma ID 859433)”, 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, pages 75.12–75.13, 157.4
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19