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- office, dignity, position [since the Old Kingdom]
c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE,
Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 18:
- gm.n.tw ḥr ḫrw.f mꜣꜥ.w rdjw n.f jꜣwt nt (j)t.f
- Horus was found justified; the office of his father was given to him.
- function, role, duty
- (in the plural, by metonymy) officials, officeholders
- (Late Egyptian) occupation, profession
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣwt
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jꜣwj (“to be(come) old”) + -t.
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- (uncountable) old age [since the Middle Kingdom]
- Synonym: jꜣw
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣwt
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jꜣw (“old man”) + -t (feminine suffix).
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- old woman [since the Pyramid Texts]
Declension of jꜣwt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣwt
From the plural of jꜣt (“mound”).
f pl
- (plural only) Egypt [Greco-Roman Period]
f pl
- (Late Egyptian) Alternative form of ꜥwt (“four-legged animals, herds”)
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 455.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 242
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 26.13, 28.13–28.14, 29.3, 29.7–29.13, 29.15–29.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 7–8