jmj-r-mšꜥ
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Egyptian
Etymology
From jmj-r (“overseer”) + mšꜥ (“army, workgang, expedition”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘overseer of the army/workgang/expedition’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /imi ɛr mɛʃɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: imi-er-mesha
Noun
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Inflection
Declension of jmj-r-mšꜥ (masculine)
| singular | jmj-r-mšꜥ |
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| dual | jmjwj-r-mšꜥ |
| plural | jmjw-r-mšꜥ |
Derived terms
Descendants
Compounded with preceding definite article pꜣ:
- →⇒ Meroitic: 𐦧𐦡𐦬𐦨𐦣𐦯 (pelmos /pəlamusa/)
References
- “jm.j-rʾ-mšꜥ (lemma ID 400043)”, 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
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 94, 155.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 18–19
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 34, 93.