jnm
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Egyptian
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic. Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵉⵍⵎ (ilm).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /jaˈnam/ → /jaˈnam/ → /ʔaˈnam/ → /ʔaˈnam/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /inɛm/
- Conventional anglicization: inem
Noun
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- skin of a human or animal
- hide, pelt, removed skin of an animal
- leather
- color of skin
- hues, colors (of the sky, cloth, etc.)
- (figurative) exterior, appearance, form
Usage notes
In late writings this word becomes confused with jwn (“color”) and is sometimes written identically.
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References
- “jnm (lemma ID 27420)”, 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 96.14–96.20
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 23
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 126.