jꜣkby

Egyptian

Etymology

From jꜣkb (“to mourn”) +‎ -y (agent nominalizer).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑkbiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iakby

Noun

 m

1. mourner
2. an epithet for various gods

Inflection

Declension of jꜣkby (masculine)

singular	jꜣkby
dual	jꜣkbywj
plural	jꜣkbyw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣkby  

jꜣkby

as a divine epithet

Derived terms

• jꜣkbyt

 

Proper noun

 m

1. a location in the afterworld

References

• “jꜣkb.y (lemma ID 855868)”, “jꜣkb.y (lemma ID 21030)”, and “jꜣkb.y (lemma ID 21040)”, 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 34.13, 34.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9