jmn-m-jpt

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmn (“Amun”) +‎ m (“in”) +‎ jpt (“Luxor, inner sanctum”), thus “Amun in Luxor”, “Amun in the inner sanctum”. The personal name is probably to be interpreted as an adverbial sentence, “Amun is in Luxor”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛn ɛm ipɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: amen-em-ipet

Proper noun

 m

1. the form of the god Amun worshipped at Luxor
2. a male given name, Amenemope

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ἀμένωφις (Aménōphis)
• → Middle Babylonian: [Term?] (/⁠amanappa⁠/)

References

• “Jmn-m-Jp.t (lemma ID 26250)”, 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 68.5
• “Amenophis” at Trismegistos (TM Nam 8042)