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

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte), ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
    • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
    • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte)
    • → Ancient Greek: Ἀμένθης (Aménthēs)

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, 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, 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, page 87.1–87.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond (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, volume 1: ꜣ–y, Leuven: Peeters, page 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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