jmt nḏst

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmt (“(one) being in”) +‎ nḏst (“left side^?; smallness^?”). The exact etymological meaning is unclear, but compare the construction of jmj wrt (“starboard”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛt nɛd͡ʒsɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imet nedjset

Noun

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1. stern of a ship
2. designates a particular phyle of funerary priests

References

• “jm.jt-nḏs.t (lemma ID 25520)” and “jm.jt-nḏs.t (lemma ID 25530)”, 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 74.9–74.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18