Egyptian

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Etymology

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From jpt (select, inner sanctum) +‎ swt (plural of st (place)), literally the (most) select of places.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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ip
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stt
Z2ss
niwt

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  1. the temple of Karnak

Alternative forms

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Descendants

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  • Demotic: jp-s.wt, jp-s.t.w

References

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  • Jp.t-s.wt (lemma ID 24240)”, 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, page 66
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 16
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 112, 276.