jmw tꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmw (“(those) being in”) +‎ tꜣ (“earth”), literally “those in the earth”. Compare the singular form jmj-tꜣ, used as a priestly title.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imuː tɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: imu ta

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) epithet for snakes

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmw tꜣ  

jmj tꜣ

Derived terms

• jmjw-tꜣ-mw

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) epithet for stones

References

• “jm.j-tꜣ (lemma ID 25860)” and “jm.j-tꜣ (lemma ID 500182)”, 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 75.17–75.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19