jmj ḫt

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ ḫt (“what is behind or after”). The nisba equivalent to m ḫt.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi xɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi khet

Adjective

1. being behind (spatially), found behind, rear
2. succeeding, following after (temporally)

Inflection

Declension of jmj ḫt (nisba adjective)

	masculine	feminine
singular	jmj ḫt	jmt ḫt
dual	jmjwj ḫt, jmwj ḫt	jmtj ḫt
plural	jmjw ḫt, jmw ḫt	jmwt ḫt1, jmt ḫt2
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj ḫt  

jmj ḫt	jmj ḫt	jmj ḫt	jmj ḫt	jmj ḫt	jmj ḫt	jmj ḫt
			[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Noun

 m

1. (usually in the plural) follower, retainer, attendant; (in the plural) retinue
2. (usually in the plural) successor, descendant, aftercomer, one who will come after; (in the plural) posterity
3. an official title, especially used as part of longer titles: undersupervisor [Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of jmj ḫt (masculine)

singular	jmj ḫt
dual	jmjwj ḫt, jmwj ḫt
plural	jmjw ḫt, jmw ḫt

Alternative forms

See under the adjective above; however, additional writings are also found for the noun:

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj ḫt  

jmj ḫt	jmj ḫt	jmw ḫt
		in the plural

References

• “jm.j-ḫt (lemma ID 25760)”, “jm.j-ḫt (lemma ID 25750)”, and “jm.j-ḫt (lemma ID 25740)”, 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 75.2–75.6
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 347.2–347.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 96