jwn-knmwt

Egyptian

Etymology

jwn (“pillar, succorer”) +‎ knmwt (“oasis-dwellers^?”) in a direct genitive construction, thus possibly ‘succorer of the oasis-dwellers’, although the exact signification of knmwt is disputed.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːn kɛnmuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iun-kenmut

Noun

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1. a title of disputed significance, possibly a priestly title or a title for a high administrator of some kind [chiefly Old Kingdom, rarely also Middle Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of jwn-knmwt (masculine)

singular	jwn-knmwt
dual	jwnwj-knmwt
plural	jwnw-knmwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwn-knmwt  

jwn-knmwt	jwn-knmwt	jwn-knmwt

References

• “jwn-knm.wt (lemma ID 450603)”, 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 53.18
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13