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Egyptian
Etymology 1
From jmn (“western”) + -t (feminine ending).
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- west, the West
- right side
- the Duat, the afterworld
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Etymology 2
jmn (“Amun”) + -t (feminine ending).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
- Amaunet, a primeval goddess, female personification of the hiddenness of the primeval waters (as a counterpart to the male Amun), worshipped at Hermopolis as a member of the Ogdoad
- Amaunet, a goddess worshipped at Thebes as the female counterpart of the king of the gods Amun
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmnt
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: Ἀμαῦνι (Amaûni)
References
- 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 (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 171, 276.
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 56
