jmy

Egyptian

Etymology

Probably originally a derivative of m (“in”); compare jmj (“being in”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: imy

Adjective

1. (following n (“to, for”) with an attached suffix pronoun) of, belonging to

   ― ms n.f jmy ― a child of his (literally, “child to him belonging”)

Inflection

Usually invariable, but older texts sometimes use a feminine form jmyt when the modified noun is feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmy  

jm	jmy	jmy	jmw
	[21st Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
	in hieratic

Romanization

jmy

1. Alternative transliteration of jmj.

References

• “jm.y (lemma ID 25160)”, 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 (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 76.9, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 93, 456.