jꜣtjw

Egyptian

Etymology 1

jꜣṯ (“to be(come) injured, mutilated”) +‎ -w. The expected form jꜣṯw is unattested with this meaning, although it exists with other related significations.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑtiuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iatiu

Noun

 m

1. mutilation [Middle Kingdom literature]

Inflection

Declension of jꜣtjw (masculine)

singular	jꜣtjw
dual	jꜣtjwwj
plural	jꜣtjww

Etymology 2

jꜣt (“mound”) +‎ -j (nisba ending) +‎ -w (plural ending).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑtiuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iatiu

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) mound-dwellers

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 35.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 317.