jmj-wt

Egyptian

Etymology

Perhaps from jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ wt (“bandage, mummy wrapping”), although other interpretations have also been suggested.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi wɛt/, /imiuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi-wet, imiut

Proper noun

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1. epithet for the god Anubis
2. the Imiut fetish, the symbol or fetish of Anubis consisting of a stuffed headless animal skin tied face-down to a pole, with its tail terminating in a lotus bud at the top [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-wt  

jmj-wt	jmj-wt
	[Greco-Roman Period]

Descendants

• Demotic: m-wyt, m-wyṱ

References

• “jm.j-wt (lemma ID 25390)” and “Jm.j-wt (lemma ID 400938)”, 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 73.14–73.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18