jmy
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Egyptian
Etymology
Probably originally a derivative of m (“in”); compare jmj (“being in”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /imiː/
- Conventional anglicization: imy
Adjective
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- (following n (“to, for”) with an attached suffix pronoun) of, belonging to
― ms n.f jmy ― a child of his (literally, “child to him belonging”)
Inflection
Usually invariable, but older texts sometimes use a feminine form jmyt when the modified noun is feminine.
Alternative forms
Romanization
jmy
References
- “jm.y (lemma ID 25160)”, 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 (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 76.9, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 93, 456.