jmntt

Egyptian

Etymology

Nominalized from the feminine of jmntj.

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /jaˈmintit/ → /jaˈmintiʔ/ → /ʔaˈmenta/ → /ʔaˈmentə/

Noun
imntt t
xAst

 f

  1. the West, regions of the earth or sky lying to the west [since the Old Kingdom]
  2. west, western side, western half (of a place or the sky)
  3. epithet for the afterworld
  4. epithet for a necropolis

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmntt  
R13
t t
imntt
t		 xAst
R13t t
xAst
imntt t
N23 Z1
imntt
t		 N21
E139
t t
xAst
H6B
t
t		 xAst
jmntt jmntt jmntt jmntt jmntt jmntt jmntt
[Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Book of the Dead] [Book of the Dead] [New Kingdom] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • Demotic: jmntt

Proper noun
imntt t
xAst

 f

  1. the goddess Imentet, personification of the West [since the Old Kingdom]

References
  • “jmn.tjt (lemma ID 26180)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “Jmn.tjt (lemma ID 500380)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, 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
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57
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