jpt-nswt

Egyptian

Etymology

From jpt (“private chamber, women’s apartments, inner sanctum”) +‎ nswt (“king”) in a direct genitive construction, thus “private chamber/women’s apartments of the king”. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ipɛt nɛsuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ipet-nesut

Noun

 f

1. royal harem
2. private chamber or office of the king in general

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jpt-nswt  

jpꜣ-nswt	jpꜣt-nswt
[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Descendants

• Demotic: jpy-nsw, jpy.t-nsw

Noun

 f

1. collectively, the women of the royal harem

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jpt-nswt  

jpt-nswt

References

• “jp.t-nswt (lemma ID 550310)”, 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 67.14–67.15, 68.15–68.16