jmj bꜣḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmj (“being in”) +‎ bꜣḥ (“phallus”), constructed on the same model as m bꜣḥ (“in the presence of”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi bɑh/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi bah

Adjective

1. being in the presence of (a king or god)
2. being earlier (than), having existed before

Inflection

Declension of jmj bꜣḥ (nisba adjective)

	masculine	feminine
singular	jmj bꜣḥ	jmt bꜣḥ
dual	jmjwj bꜣḥ, jmwj bꜣḥ	jmtj bꜣḥ
plural	jmjw bꜣḥ, jmw bꜣḥ	jmwt bꜣḥ1, jmt bꜣḥ2

¹ Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
² 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 bꜣḥ  

jmj bꜣḥ

Noun

 m

1. (chiefly in the plural) ancestor

Inflection

Declension of jmj bꜣḥ (masculine)

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

Alternative forms

This word may also be written identically to the adjective above; see the alternative forms given there.

References

• “jm.j-bꜣḥ (lemma ID 25410)” and “jm.j-bꜣḥ (lemma ID 25420)”, 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 73.16–73.19
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 97