jꜣt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun


 f

  1. mound

Inflection
Declension of jꜣt (feminine)
singular jꜣt
dual jꜣtj
plural jꜣwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣt  



ꜣt ꜣt jꜣt jꜣt
[Late Egyptian] [Late Egyptian] [Late Egyptian]

Possibly, following Gardiner’s suggestion, ꜣꜣ (“mound of ruins”) may also be merely a variant writing of this word.

Derived terms

Noun

 f

  1. (anatomy) spine, backbone
  2. (anatomy, of humans or animals) back
  3. (figuratively) middle of a body of water

Inflection
Declension of jꜣt (feminine)
singular jꜣt
dual jꜣtj
plural jꜣwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣt  






jꜣt jꜣt ꜣt ꜣtj ꜣt ꜣtj ꜣt
[Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Late Egyptian] [Late Egyptian] [Late Egyptian]
‘middle of water’ sense in papyri
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣt  





ꜣt ꜣtj ꜣtj jꜣt ꜣdt jꜣdt
[Late Egyptian] [Late Egyptian] [Late Egyptian] [Late Egyptian] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242.
  • Gardiner, Alan (1948) “The First Two Pages of the Wörterbuch” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34, p. 15
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 2, 26.3–26.6, 26.9–26.15
  • Lesko, Leonard; Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, volume 1, second edition, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 1, 11
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.