Egyptian
Etymology
From jꜣkb (“to mourn”) + -y (agent nominalizer).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- mourner
- an epithet for various gods
Inflection
Declension of jꜣkby (masculine)
| singular
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jꜣkby
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| dual
|
jꜣkbywj
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| plural
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jꜣkbyw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣkby
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| jꜣkby
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| as a divine epithet
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Derived terms
Proper noun
m
- a location in the afterworld
References
- “jꜣkb.y (lemma ID 855868)”, “jꜣkb.y (lemma ID 21030)”, and “jꜣkb.y (lemma ID 21040)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 34.13, 34.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9