jptwt

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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Sethe considers this form to have originated as a miswriting of jptw; Faulkner instead considers it a back-formation from the dual form jptwtj.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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 f pl proximal demonstrative determiner

  1. (Old Egyptian or archaizing Middle Egyptian, rare) these

Usage notes

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This demonstrative seems to be a rare form with the same functions as jptw, perhaps a mere variant. See the usage notes there.

Inflection

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References

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  • jptwt (lemma ID 851264)”, 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
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 17
  • Edel, Elmar (1955-1964) Altägyptische Grammatik, volume 1, Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, § 182 et seq., page 83 et seq.
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1929) The Plural and Dual in Old Egyptian, Bruxelles: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, § 60, pages 61–62