Egyptian
Etymology
From jwnt (“bow”) + -j (nisba ending), thus ‘(one) relating to the bow’, ‘bowman’.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- (chiefly in the plural) nomadic desert Nubian
- (rare, chiefly in the plural) eastern desert nomad in general, for instance in the Sinai or Wadi Hammamat
Inflection
Declension of jwntj (masculine)
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jwntj
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jwntjwj
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jwntjw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwntj
Mostly found in the plural:
Plural writings of jwntj
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jwntw
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jwntw
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jwntw
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jwntw
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jwntjw
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jwntjw
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jwntjw
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[18th Dynasty]
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in hieratic
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References
- “Jwn.tjw (lemma ID 22690)”, 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 55.3–55.7
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
- 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.