jmnt

Egyptian

Etymology 1

From jmn (western) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjamnat//ˈjamnaʔ//ˈʔamna//ˈʔamnə/

Noun


 f

  1. west, the West
  2. right side
  3. the Duat, the afterworld
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mḥtt

jmnt

jꜣbt
rswt
Derived terms

Etymology 2

jmn (Amun) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /jaˈmanwVt//jaˈmanwVʔ//ʔaˈmawna//ʔaˈmawnə/

Proper noun



 f

  1. Amaunet, a primeval goddess, female personification of the hiddenness of the primeval waters (as a counterpart to the male Amun), worshipped at Hermopolis as a member of the Ogdoad [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. Amaunet, a goddess worshipped at Thebes as the female counterpart of the king of the gods Amun [since the Middle Kingdom]
Alternative forms
Descendants
  • Ancient Greek: Ἀμαῦνι (Amaûni)

References

  • 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 (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 171, 276.
  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 56