jty
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Egyptian
Etymology
Possibly from jt(j) (“father”) + -j (“nisba ending”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /itiː/
- Conventional anglicization: ity
Noun
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- sire, sovereign
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 174–175:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n(.j) ꜥq.kw ḥr jtj mz.n.j n.f jnw pn jn.n.j m ẖnw n(j) jw pn
- Then I entered before the sovereign and presented him with those gifts (literally, “this getting”) that I had gotten within that island.
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References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 68, 167, 233, 251.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 112