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Egyptian
Etymology
From jwnt (“bow”) + -j (nisba ending), thus ‘(one) relating to the bow’, ‘bowman’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (chiefly in the plural) nomadic desert Nubian
- (rare, chiefly in the plural) eastern desert nomad in general, for instance in the Sinai or Wadi Hammamat
Inflection
Declension of jwntj (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwntj
Mostly found in the plural:
References
- “Jwn.tjw (lemma ID 22690)”, 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 55.3–55.7
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 456.
