jwnw-šmꜥw

Egyptian

Etymology

jwnw (“Heliopolis”) +‎ šmꜥw (“Upper Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the Heliopolis of Upper Egypt’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːnuː ʃɛmɑːuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iunu-shemau

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. Thebes

   Synonyms: wꜣst, nwt

2. Hermonthis

   Synonym: jwnj

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnw-šmꜥw  

jwnw-šmꜥw

Derived terms

• twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn-ḥqꜣ-jwnw-šmꜥw

 

Descendants

• Demotic: jwnw-šmꜥ

References

• “Jwn.w-Šmꜥ.w (lemma ID 22740)”, 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 54.6
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 473.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13