jwnw-šmꜥw

Egyptian

Etymology

jwnw (“Heliopolis”) +‎ šmꜥw (“Upper Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the Heliopolis of Upper Egypt’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

  1. Thebes
    Synonyms: wꜣst, nwt
  2. Hermonthis
    Synonym: jwnj

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnw-šmꜥw  
jwnw-šmꜥw

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: jwnw-šmꜥ

References

  • “Jwn.w-Šmꜥ.w (lemma ID 22740)”, 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 54.6
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[3], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 473.5
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
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