Egyptian
Etymology
From jwtj (“one for whom it is not the case that”) + n (“to, for”) + .f (“him”), thus literally ‘one for whom (there is) not (something) for him’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- one who has nothing, one of the have-nots, dispossessed person, poor person
- Synonyms: jwtj-sw, jwtj.f
Inflection
Declension of jwtj-n.f (masculine)
singular
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jwtj-n.f
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dual
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jwtjwj-n.snj, jwtwj-n.snj
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plural
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jwtjw-n.sn, jwtw-n.sn
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwtj-n.f
References
- “jw.tj-n⸗f (lemma ID 22090)”, 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 46.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 138.