jwꜥyt
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Egyptian
Etymology
From jwꜥ (“to inherit; to endow”) + -yt; the underlying sense may thus be a ‘complement’ of troops with which a place is endowed.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːɑːiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: iuayt
Noun
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- garrison, occupational force; troops stationed in or occupying a particular place
Alternative forms
References
- “jwꜥ.yt (lemma ID 22440)”, 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 51.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13