Egyptian
Etymology
From jmw (“(those) being in”) + tꜣ (“earth”), literally “those in the earth”. Compare the singular form jmj-tꜣ, used as a priestly title.
Pronunciation
Noun
m pl
- (plural only) epithet for snakes
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmw tꜣ
Derived terms
Noun
m pl
- (plural only) epithet for stones
References
- “jm.j-tꜣ (lemma ID 25860)” and “jm.j-tꜣ (lemma ID 500182)”, 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 75.17–75.18
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19