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Egyptian
Etymology
jmj-r (“overseer”) + šnt (“dispute”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘overseer of dispute’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- sheriff
Inflection
Declension of jmj-r-šnt (masculine)
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 299.
