bꜣk jm

Egyptian

Etymology

From bꜣk (“servant”) +‎ jm (“therein”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑk im/
  • Conventional anglicization: bak im

Noun

 m

1. (idiomatic) a humble reference to the speaker; yours truly, your humble servant

References

• “bꜣk-jm (lemma ID 550024)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 72.10, 429.8
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93.