jwn-knmwt

Egyptian

Etymology

jwn (“pillar, succorer”) +‎ knmwt (“oasis-dwellers?”) in a direct genitive construction, thus possibly ‘succorer of the oasis-dwellers’, although the exact signification of knmwt is disputed.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. a title of disputed significance, possibly a priestly title or a title for a high administrator of some kind [chiefly Old Kingdom, rarely also Middle Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of jwn-knmwt (masculine)
singular jwn-knmwt
dual jwnwj-knmwt
plural jwnw-knmwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwn-knmwt  


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References

  • “jwn-knm.wt (lemma ID 450603)”, 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, page 53.18
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
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