jwꜥyt

Egyptian

Etymology

From jwꜥ (“to inherit; to endow”) +‎ -yt; the underlying sense may thus be a ‘complement’ of troops with which a place is endowed.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːɑːiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iuayt

Noun

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1. garrison, occupational force; troops stationed in or occupying a particular place [New Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥyt  

jwꜥyt	jwꜥyt	jwꜥwt	jꜥyt	jwꜥꜥwt
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[19th Dynasty]
	in hieratic

References

• “jwꜥ.yt (lemma ID 22440)”, 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, page 51.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13