jmj-tꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ tꜣ (“earth”), literally “the one in the earth”. Compare the non-titular use of the plural form jmw tꜣ (“snakes; rocks”, literally “those in the earth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. a priestly title

Inflection

Declension of jmj-tꜣ (masculine)
singular jmj-tꜣ
dual jmjwj-tꜣ, jmwj-tꜣ
plural jmjw-tꜣ, jmw-tꜣ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-tꜣ  
jmj-tꜣ jmj-tꜣ
[New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period]

References

  • “jm.j-tꜣ (lemma ID 500183)”, 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 75.19
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