jmntt

Nominalized from the feminine of jmntj.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛnɛtɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: amenetet

 f

1. the West, regions of the earth or sky lying to the west [since the Old Kingdom]
2. west, western side, western half (of a place or the sky)
3. epithet for the afterworld
4. epithet for a necropolis

• jmn
• jmnt

• jꜣbt
• jꜣbtt

• Demotic: jmntt
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte), ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲉⲛϯ (amenti)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉⲙⲛⲧⲉ (emnte)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲛⲧⲉ (amnte)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἀμένθης (Aménthēs)

 f

1. the goddess Imentet, personification of the West [since the Old Kingdom]

• “jmn.tjt (lemma ID 26180)” and “Jmn.tjt (lemma ID 500380)”, 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 87.1–87.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 21
• Leitz, Christian; Budde, Dagmar; Dils, Peter; Goldbrunner, Lothar; Mendel, Daniela (2002), Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 1: ꜣ–y, Leuven: Peeters, pages 362–363
• 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.
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976), Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 6