jnm

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic. Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵉⵍⵎ (ilm).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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  1. skin of a human or animal
  2. hide, pelt, removed skin of an animal
  3. leather
  4. color of skin
  5. hues, colors (of the sky, cloth, etc.)
  6. (figurative) exterior, appearance, form

Usage notes

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In late writings this word becomes confused with jwn (color) and is sometimes written identically.

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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Descendants

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  • Demotic: ꜣnm

References

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  • jnm (lemma ID 27420)”, 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 96.14–96.20
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 23
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 126.