jyt

See also: jy't

Egyptian

Other romanization schemes

Manuel de Codage	iyt
Gardiner 1927	ꞽyt
Erman & Grapow 1926	ꞽj·t
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)	ȧī-t

Etymology

From jj (“to come”), thus literally ‘that which has come’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iʔiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iyt

Noun

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1. unfavorable occurrences; mishap, harm, trouble [Middle Kingdom literature and Greco-Roman Period]
2. ill deeds; mischief, wrong, harm, offence

   ― jrj jyt ― to do wrong

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jyt  

jyt	jyt	jyt

References

• “jy.t (lemma ID 21340)”, 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 38.9–38.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 455.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, pages 123, 145