jmt

See also: JMT

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imet

Etymology 1

Proper noun

 f

1. Buto, a city in the eastern Nile delta, modern Tell Nebesha or Tell el-Farʿun

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmt  

jmt	jmt	jmt
		[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• jmtj

 

Etymology 2

Noun

 m

1. foster child, ward (of the king of Lower Egypt) [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. child (of a deity) [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of jmt (masculine)

singular	jmt
dual	jmtwj
plural	jmtw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmt  

jmt	jm	jm	jm
[Middle Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Etymology 3

From jm (“to moan, to groan, to lament”) +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. (hapax) groaning, lamentation, mourning, grief

References

• “Jm.t (lemma ID 24750)” and “jm.tj (lemma ID 24770)”, 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 78.12, 78.16–78.17
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18