pꜣ-n-jpt

Egyptian

Etymology

From pꜣ (“the”) +‎ n(j) (“(one) of”) +‎ jpt (“Luxor, inner sanctum”), literally “the one of Luxor”.

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pənəˈjoːpə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɑ ɛn ipɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: pa-en-ipet

Proper noun

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1. the month of Phaophi
2. the festival of Phaophi

Coordinate terms

Egyptian calendar months (New Kingdom/Theban)edit

• ḏḥwtj
• pꜣ-n-jpt
• ḥwt-ḥr
• kꜣ-ḥr-kꜣ
• tꜣ-ꜥꜣbt
• pꜣ-n-pꜣ-mḫrw
• pꜣ-n-jmn-ḥtp
• pꜣ-n-rnn-wtt
• pꜣ-n-ḫnsw
• pꜣ-n-jnt
• jpj-jpj
• mswt-rꜥ

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲡⲁⲱⲡⲓ (paōpi), ⲡⲁⲟⲡⲓ (paopi)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲡⲁⲁⲡⲓ (paapi)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲁⲟⲡⲉ (paope), ⲡⲁⲁⲡⲉ (paape), ⲡⲟⲟⲡⲉ (poope)
• → Ancient Greek: Φαωφί (Phaōphí), Παωφί (Paōphí)
  • → English: Phaophi

References

• “Pꜣ-n-Jp.t (lemma ID 58910)”, 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 68.6
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 109.