jwntj

Egyptian

Etymology

From jwnt (“bow”) +‎ -j (nisba ending), thus ‘(one) relating to the bow’, ‘bowman’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːnɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: iuneti

Noun

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1. (chiefly in the plural) nomadic desert Nubian
2. (rare, chiefly in the plural) eastern desert nomad in general, for instance in the Sinai or Wadi Hammamat

Inflection

Declension of jwntj (masculine)

singular	jwntj
dual	jwntjwj
plural	jwntjw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwntj  

jwntj	jwntj	jwnt

Mostly found in the plural:

Plural writings of jwntj  

jwntjw	jwntw	jwntw	jwntw	jwntw	jwntjw	jwntjw	jwntjw
			[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
				in hieratic

References

• “Jwn.tjw (lemma ID 22690)”, 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 55.3–55.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 456.