jpn

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See also: JPN

Translingual

Symbol

jpn

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Japanese.

Egyptian

Etymology

Plural form of pn.

Pronunciation

Determiner

ip
n

 m pl proximal demonstrative determiner

  1. (Old Egyptian) these, those

Usage notes

This demonstrative was originally a determiner but could later be used alone, like a pronoun. When used as a determiner, it follows the noun it describes.

In Old Egyptian it forms a contrastive pair with the demonstrative jpf, in which jpn is proximal.

Its use in Middle Egyptian texts is an archaism.

In Old Egyptian this form is also used for the dual. Traditionally this is interpreted as a summary writing of a special dual form *jpnj. An alternative possible interpretation is that there simply was no distinction between the masculine dual and plural demonstrative determiners.

Inflection

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Old Coptic: ⲉⲓⲡⲛ (eipn)

References

  • jpn (lemma ID 24430)”, 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, page 69.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 17
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 55.
  • Edel, Elmar (1955-1964) Altägyptische Grammatik, volume 1, Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, § 182 et seq., page 83 et seq.
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1929) The Plural and Dual in Old Egyptian, Bruxelles: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, § 59, pages 60–61
  • Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN