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Egyptian
Etymology
Perhaps from zp (“occasion, matter”) + n(j) (“of”) + jwtt (“the nonexistent”), but other interpretations using the verb zpj (“to be left”) or noun zp (“remainder, rest”) have also been proposed. For n jwtt compare also n ntt (“because”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- uselessly, in vain, to no effect
- until none remain, to the very last
References
- “zp-n-jw.tjt (lemma ID 500022)”, 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 47.3
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 439.18
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14