jꜣt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iat

Noun

 f

1. mound

Inflection

Declension of jꜣt (feminine)

singular	jꜣt
dual	jꜣtj
plural	jꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣt  

ꜣt	ꜣt	jꜣt	jꜣt
	[Late Egyptian]	[Late Egyptian]	[Late Egyptian]

Possibly, following Gardiner’s suggestion, ꜣꜣ (“mound of ruins”) may also be merely a variant writing of this word.

Derived terms

• jꜣtjw
• jꜣt-wꜥbt

Noun

 f

1. (anatomy) spine, backbone
2. (anatomy, of humans or animals) back
3. (figuratively) middle of a body of water

Inflection

Declension of jꜣt (feminine)

singular	jꜣt
dual	jꜣtj
plural	jꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣt  

jꜣt	jꜣt	ꜣt	ꜣtj	ꜣt	ꜣtj	ꜣt
	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Egyptian]	[Late Egyptian]	[Late Egyptian]
	‘middle of water’ sense		in papyri

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣt  

ꜣt	ꜣtj	ꜣtj	jꜣt	ꜣdt	jꜣdt
[Late Egyptian]	[Late Egyptian]	[Late Egyptian]	[Late Egyptian]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242.
• Gardiner, Alan (1948) “The First Two Pages of the Wörterbuch” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34, p. 15
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 2, 26.3–26.6, 26.9–26.15
• Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, pages 1, 11