jwnj

Egyptian

Etymology

From jwn (“pillar”) +‎ -j.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːni/
  • Conventional anglicization: iuni

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. Hermonthis, a settlement in Egypt, the cult center of the god Montu, at what is now Armant

   Synonym: jwnw-šmꜥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnj  

jwnj	jwnj

Descendants

• Demotic: jwnw
• ⇒ Demotic: jwnw-mnṱ
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲉⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ (ermont)
    • → Arabic: أَرْمَنْت (ʔarmant)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲣ̄ⲙⲟⲛⲧ (r̄mont)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἕρμωνθις (Hérmōnthis), Ἕρμουθῐς (Hérmouthis), Ἕρμονθις (Hérmonthis)
    • → Latin: Hermōnthis
  • → Latin: Hermunthus, Hermuntis

References

• “Jwn.j (lemma ID 22790)”, 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 54
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 214.