jtnw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun



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  1. dust, ashes [since the Medical Papyri]
  2. material of the ground, earth, soil [since the 18th Dynasty]
  3. ground, earth (as opposed to sky, etc.) [since the 18th Dynasty]
  4. floor, flooring (bottom surface of a room or building)
  5. piece of land


    jwtnw n(j) prpiece of land on which a house is built[1]

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: jtn, ꜣtn, jytn, tn
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲧⲉⲛ (iten), ϩⲓⲧⲉⲛ (hiten)
    • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲧⲉⲛ (eiten), ⲓⲧⲉⲛ (iten)
    • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲓⲧⲛ (itn)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲧⲛ̄ (eitn̄), ⲓⲧⲛ (itn), ⲓⲧⲉⲛ (iten), ⲓⲧⲛⲉ (itne), ⲧⲛⲏ (tnē)

References

  • jtn (lemma ID 33120)”, 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 58.5–58.10, 145, 146.6–146.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 457.
  1. ^ Glanville, S.R.K. (1928) “The Letters of Aaḥmōse of Peniati” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 14, pages 298–299 and plates XXXI, XXXII, and XXXV