jmn-m-jpt
Appearance
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From jmn (“Amun”) + m (“in”) + jpt (“Luxor, inner sanctum”), thus “Amun in Luxor”, “Amun in the inner sanctum”. The personal name is probably to be interpreted as an adverbial sentence, “Amun is in Luxor”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /imɛn ɛm ipɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: amen-em-ipet
Proper noun
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- the form of the god Amun worshipped at Luxor [since the 18th Dynasty]
- a male given name, Amenemope
Descendants
[edit]- → Ancient Greek: Ἀμένωφις (Aménōphis)
- → Middle Babylonian: [Term?] (/amanappa/)
References
[edit]- “Jmn-m-Jp.t (lemma ID 26250)”, 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 68.5, 84
- “Amenophis” at Trismegistos (TM Nam 8042)