jtnw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /itɛnuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: itenu

Noun

 m

1. dust, ashes [since the Medical Papyri]
2. material of the ground, earth, soil [since the 18th Dynasty]
3. ground, earth (as opposed to sky, etc.) [since the 18th Dynasty]
4. floor, flooring (bottom surface of a room or building)
5. piece of land

   ― jwtnw n(j) pr ― piece of land on which a house is built

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jtnw  

jtnw	jtnw	jtnw	jwtn	jwtn	jwdnt	jtjnw
[Medical papyri]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Egyptian]
in the sense ‘ashes’					in hieratic

Derived terms

• jtnw n h

 

Descendants

• Demotic: jtn, ꜣtn, jytn, tn
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲧⲉⲛ (iten), ϩⲓⲧⲉⲛ (hiten)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲧⲉⲛ (eiten), ⲓⲧⲉⲛ (iten)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲓⲧⲛ (itn)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲧⲛ̄ (eitn̄), ⲓⲧⲛ (itn), ⲓⲧⲉⲛ (iten), ⲓⲧⲛⲉ (itne), ⲧⲛⲏ (tnē)

References

• “jtn (lemma ID 33120)”, 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 58.5–58.10, 145, 146.6–146.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 457.