jmj-sꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ sꜣ (“back”), literally “the one in the back”. Other interpretations have also been suggested, for example taking the second term as zꜣ (“protection”) or zꜣ (“phyle, troop”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi sɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi-sa

Noun

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1. (rare) attendant, guard

Inflection

Declension of jmj-sꜣ (masculine)

singular	jmj-sꜣ
dual	jmjwj-sꜣ, jmwj-sꜣ
plural	jmjw-sꜣ, jmw-sꜣ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-sꜣ  

jmj-sꜣ

References

• “jm.j-sꜣ (lemma ID 851087)”, 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, page 75.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19