Egyptian
Etymology
From jmj (“(one) being in”) + hrw (“day”) + .f (“his”), literally “he who is in his day”.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- person on duty for the day, in particular as a sentry; duty officer
Inflection
Declension of jmj hrw.f (masculine)
| singular
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jmj hrw.f
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| dual
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jmjwj hrw.f, jmwj hrw.f
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| plural
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jmjw hrw.f, jmw hrw.f
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj hrw.f
References
- “jm.j-hrw⸗f (lemma ID 25640)”, 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 (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 500.20
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19