jtnw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun
it
n
nw W		 fnD
Z2

 m

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

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jtnw  
it
n		 nwwfnDN33C
Z2ss
it
n		 nwwfnDZ3
it
n		 N21
Z2ss
E9
t		 n
N21 Z1
E9wt
n		 N21
Z1
E9
W		 d
n		 t
N23 Z1
it
y		 nw
W		 fnD
pr
jtnw jtnw jtnw jwtn jwtn jwdnt jtjnw
[Medical papyri] [18th Dynasty] [18th Dynasty] [18th Dynasty] [19th Dynasty] [New Kingdom] [Late Egyptian]
in the sense ‘ashes’ in hieratic

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲧⲉⲛ (iten)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲧⲉⲛ (eiten)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲧⲛ̄ (eitn̄)

References
  • “jtn (lemma ID 33120)”, 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 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.
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