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Egyptian
Etymology
From jmj (“(one) being in”) + tꜣ (“earth”), literally “the one in the earth”. Compare the non-titular use of the plural form jmw tꜣ (“snakes; rocks”, literally “those in the earth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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- a priestly title
Inflection
Declension of jmj-tꜣ (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-tꜣ
References
- “jm.j-tꜣ (lemma ID 500183)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 75.19
