jwꜥyt

Egyptian

Etymology

From jwꜥ (“to inherit; to endow”) +‎ -yt; the underlying sense may thus be a ‘complement’ of troops with which a place is endowed.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. garrison, occupational force; troops stationed in or occupying a particular place [New Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥyt  








jwꜥyt jwꜥyt jwꜥwt jꜥyt jwꜥꜥwt
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [19th Dynasty]
in hieratic

References

  • “jwꜥ.yt (lemma ID 22440)”, 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 51.11
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
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