Egyptian
Etymology
From jmj-r (“overseer”) + kꜣt (“work”) in a direct genitive construction.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- an official title: ‘overseer of work’
Inflection
Declension of jmj-r-kꜣt (masculine)
| singular
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jmj-r-kꜣt
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| dual
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jmjwj-r-kꜣt
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| plural
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jmjw-r-kꜣt
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References
- “jm.j-rʾ-kꜣ.t (lemma ID 855679)” and “jm.j-rʾ-kꜣ.t (lemma ID 850375)”, 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
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18