jmnt

Egyptian

Etymology 1

From jmn (“western”) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjamnat/ → /ˈjamnaʔ/ → /ˈʔamna/ → /ˈʔamnə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjamnat/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjamnaʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔamna/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔamnə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: amenet

Noun

 f

1. west, the West
2. right side
3. the Duat, the afterworld

Synonyms

• jmn
• jmntt

Antonyms

• jꜣbt
• jꜣbtt

Coordinate terms

compass points:  ^[edit]

	mḥtt
jmnt		jꜣbt
	rswt

Derived terms

• jmntj
• jmntt

Etymology 2

jmn (“Amun”) +‎ -t (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jaˈmanwVt/ → /jaˈmanwVʔ/ → /ʔaˈmawna/ → /ʔaˈmawnə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaˈmanwVt/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaˈmanwVʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmawna/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmawnə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: amenet

Proper noun

 f

1. Amaunet, a primeval goddess, female personification of the hiddenness of the primeval waters (as a counterpart to the male Amun), worshipped at Hermopolis as a member of the Ogdoad [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. Amaunet, a goddess worshipped at Thebes as the female counterpart of the king of the gods Amun [since the Middle Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmnt  

jmnt

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ἀμαῦνι (Amaûni)

References

• 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 (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 171, 276.