jmj-tꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ tꜣ (“earth”), literally “the one in the earth”. Compare the non-titular use of the plural form jmw tꜣ (“snakes; rocks”, literally “those in the earth”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi tɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi-ta

Noun

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1. a priestly title

Inflection

Declension of jmj-tꜣ (masculine)

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

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-tꜣ  

jmj-tꜣ	jmj-tꜣ
[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “jm.j-tꜣ (lemma ID 500183)”, 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 75.19