Egyptian
Etymology
Nominalized from the feminine of jmntj.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /jaˈmintit/ → /jaˈmintiʔ/ → /ʔaˈmenta/ → /ʔaˈmentə/
Noun
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- the West, regions of the earth or sky lying to the west [since the Old Kingdom]
- west, western side, western half (of a place or the sky)
- epithet for the afterworld
- epithet for a necropolis
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmntt
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: jmntt
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte), ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte)
- → Ancient Greek: Ἀμένθης (Aménthēs)
Proper noun
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- the goddess Imentet, personification of the West [since the Old Kingdom]
References
- “jmn.tjt (lemma ID 26180)” and “Jmn.tjt (lemma ID 500380)”, 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 87.1–87.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
- Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 1: ꜣ–y, Leuven: Peeters, pages 362–363
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 456.
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 6
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57