jꜥn
Egyptian
Etymology
One early writing of the word shows the form ꜥnr, which Erman and Grapow take to represent the earliest known form of the word; however, Vycichl considers this a pseudo-archaic secondary development, since none of the known plural forms conserve the consonant r in this position.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjuʕnVr/ → /ˈjuʕnVj/ → /ˈʕuʕnə/ → /ˈʕøʕn/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iɑːn/
- Conventional anglicization: ian
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥn
jꜥnjw | ꜥnꜥw | ꜥny | ꜣꜥꜥnjw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
[Pyramid Texts] | [New Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
in hieratic |
The determinative of the baboon
may be replaced with one depicting only its head. As an epithet of Thoth, the word additionally appears with determinatives indicating godhood:
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥn
ꜣꜥꜥnw | ꜣꜥꜥnj | ꜥꜥnꜣ | ||||||||||||||||
[Late Egyptian] | [Late Egyptian] | [Late Egyptian] | ||||||||||||||||
in sense ‘epithet of Thoth’ | in sense ‘epithet of Thoth’ | in sense ‘epithet of Thoth’ |
Derived terms
Descendants
Alternative forms
See under the noun above.
References
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 11
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 3, 41.5–41.8, 192.15
- Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, pages 2, 62
- Crum, Walter E. (1939) A Coptic Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 66
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 53
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