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Egyptian
Etymology
jwnw (“Heliopolis”) + šmꜥw (“Upper Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the Heliopolis of Upper Egypt’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m./f. topo.
- Thebes
- Synonyms: wꜣst, nwt
- Hermonthis
- Synonym: jwnj
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnw-šmꜥw
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Jwn.w-Šmꜥ.w (lemma ID 22740)”, 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 54.6
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 473.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
