jmj-r-mšꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj-r (“overseer”) +‎ mšꜥ (“army, workgang, expedition”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘overseer of the army/workgang/expedition’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. general (military leader)
2. foreman or boss of a workgang

Inflection

Declension of jmj-r-mšꜥ (masculine)

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

Derived terms

• jmj-r-mšꜥ-wr

 

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲗⲉⲙⲏⲏϣⲉ (lemēēše, “warrior”)
• →⇒ Ancient Greek: λεμεισα (lemeisa)

Compounded with preceding definite article pꜣ:

• →⇒ Meroitic: 𐦧𐦡𐦬𐦨𐦣𐦯 (pelmos /⁠pəlamusa⁠/)

References

• “jm.j-rʾ-mšꜥ (lemma ID 400043)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 94, 155.16
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 18–19
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 34, 93.