jmntt

Egyptian

Etymology

Nominalized from the feminine of jmntj.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jaˈmintit/ → /jaˈmintiʔ/ → /ʔaˈmenta/ → /ʔaˈmentə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaˈmintit/^[1]
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaˈmintiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmenta/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmentə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛnɛtɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: amenetet

Noun

 f

1. the West, regions of the earth or sky lying to the west [since the Old Kingdom]
2. west, western side, western half (of a place or the sky)
3. epithet for the afterworld
4. epithet for a necropolis

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmntt  

jmntt	jmntt	jmntt	jmntt	jmntt	jmntt	jmntt
[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Book of the Dead]	[Book of the Dead]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Synonyms

• jmn
• jmnt

Antonyms

• jꜣbt
• jꜣbtt

Derived terms

• r jmntt
• ḫntj-jmntt

 

Descendants

• Demotic: jmntt
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte), ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἀμένθης (Aménthēs)

Proper noun

 f

1. the goddess Imentet, personification of the West [since the Old Kingdom]

References

• “jmn.tjt (lemma ID 26180)” and “Jmn.tjt (lemma ID 500380)”, 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 87.1–87.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
• Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 1: ꜣ–y, Leuven: Peeters, pages 362–363
• 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.
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 6

1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57