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Egyptian
Etymology
From jp (“counting, assessing, shrewd, judicious”, perfective active participle of jp (“to count, to assess, to assign, to be(come) judicious”)) + jb (“heart, mind”) in a direct genitive construction, thus “shrewd of mind”. The divine epithet can alternatively be understood with jb as the object of jp, thus “(one who is) assessing the heart/mind”, “assessor of the heart/mind”.
Pronunciation
Adjective
- shrewd, judicious, discerning, circumspect
Inflection
Declension of jp-jb
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masculine
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feminine
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| singular
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jp-jb
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jpt-jb
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| dual
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jpwj-jb
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jptj-jb
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| plural
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jpw-jb
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jpwt-jb1, jpt-jb2
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- Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
- From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.
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Proper noun
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- epithet for the god Thoth, and occasionally other gods
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jp-jb
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| jpj-jb
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| as an epithet for Thoth
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References
- “jp (jb) (lemma ID 24200)” and “jp-jb (lemma ID 24210)”, 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 66.16, 66.18–66.19
