jmt-pr

Egyptian

Etymology

A nominalized nisba adjective in a reverse nisba construction, jmt (“being in”) +‎ pr (“house, estate”), literally ‘what the estate is in’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛt pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: imet-per

Noun

 f

1. inventory of a house’s or estate’s property and goods
2. such property itself
3. specifically, such property as a bequeathed legacy or estate; bequest

   ― šzp jmt-pr ― to receive a bequest (+ m-ꜥ: from)

   ― rḏj (m) jmt-pr ― to bequeath property as a bequest (+ n: to (someone))

4. will, last will and testament (document)

   ― jrj jmt-pr ― to make a will (+ n: in (someone)’s favor; + m: about)

5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jmj,‎ pr.

Inflection

Declension of jmt-pr (feminine)

singular	jmt-pr
dual	jmtj-pr
plural	jmwt-pr

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmt-pr  

jmt-pr	jmt-pr	jmt-pr	jmt-pr	jmt-pr	jmj-pr	jmj-pr
				[18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• ḥqꜣ-jmj-pr

 

References

• “jm.jt-pr (lemma ID 854489)”, 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 73.20–74.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 18, 89
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 92, 292.