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Egyptian
Etymology
From jmj (“(one) being in”) + jb (“heart, mind”), literally “one who/that which is in the heart/mind”.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- favorite or close confidante
- understanding, intellect, mind
Inflection
Declension of jmj jb (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj jb
References
- “jm.j-jb (lemma ID 25250)”, “jm.j-jb (lemma ID 882344)”, and “jm.j-jb (lemma ID 25260)”, 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, pages 72.18–72.19
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 62
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 150.
