jmj-r-kꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj-r (“overseer”) +‎ kꜣt (“work”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi ɛr kɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi-er-kat

Noun

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1. an official title: ‘overseer of work’

Inflection

Declension of jmj-r-kꜣt (masculine)

singular	jmj-r-kꜣt
dual	jmjwj-r-kꜣt
plural	jmjw-r-kꜣt

References

• “jm.j-rʾ-kꜣ.t (lemma ID 855679)” and “jm.j-rʾ-kꜣ.t (lemma ID 850375)”, 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
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18