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Egyptian
Other romanization schemes
| Manuel de Codage
|
iwnyt
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| Gardiner 1927
|
ꞽwnyt
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| Erman & Grapow 1926
|
ꞽwnj·t
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| Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)
|
ȧunī-t
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Etymology
From jwn (“pillar”) + -yt.
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- hypostyle hall
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnyt
Proper noun
f
- Latopolis or Esna, a settlement in Upper Egypt
References
- “jwn.yt (lemma ID 22800)” and “Jwn.yt (lemma ID 22820)”, 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 54, 54.2
- 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 343.
