jꜥn

One early writing of the word shows the form ꜥnr, which Erman and Grapow take to represent the earliest known form of the word; however, Vycichl considers this a pseudo-archaic secondary development, since none of the known plural forms conserve the consonant r in this position.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑːn/
  • Conventional anglicization: ian

 m

1. (male) baboon
2. an epithet of the god Thoth

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥn  

ꜥnr	jꜥnꜥ	jꜥnꜥ	ꜥꜥnꜥ	ꜥnꜥ	ꜣꜥn	ꜣꜥꜥnj	ꜥnꜥn	ꜥꜥn
					in hieratic	in hieratic

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of plural jꜥnw  

jꜥnjw	ꜥnꜥw	ꜥny	ꜣꜥꜥnjw
			in hieratic

The determinative of the baboon may be replaced with one depicting only its head. As an epithet of Thoth, the word additionally appears with determinatives indicating godhood:

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥn  

ꜣꜥꜥnw	ꜣꜥꜥnj	ꜥꜥnꜣ
in sense ‘epithet of Thoth’	in sense ‘epithet of Thoth’	in sense ‘epithet of Thoth’

• Demotic: ⁠⁠⁠ (ꜥꜥn)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲏⲛ (ēn)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲉⲛ (en)
  • Old Coptic: ⲉⲉⲛ (een), ⲉⲛ (en), ⲁⲛⲁ (ana)

 m

1. a constellation, the Baboon

See under the noun above.

• “jꜥnꜥ (lemma ID 850186)”, “jꜥnꜥ (lemma ID 850335)”, and “Jꜥnꜥ (lemma ID 850334)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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
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