jwnyt

Egyptian

Other romanization schemes

Manuel de Codage	iwnyt
Gardiner 1927	ꞽwnyt
Erman & Grapow 1926	ꞽwnj·t
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)	ȧunī-t

Etymology

From jwn (“pillar”) +‎ -yt.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːniːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iunyt

Noun

 f

1. hypostyle hall [Middle and New Kingdoms]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnyt  

jwnwt	wnyt	jwnwyt	jwnyt	wnyt
		[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]

Proper noun

 f

1. Latopolis or Esna, a settlement in Upper Egypt

References

• “jwn.yt (lemma ID 22800)” and “Jwn.yt (lemma ID 22820)”, 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 54, 54.2
• 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 343.