Egyptian

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Etymology

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From jwtj (one for whom it is not the case that) +‎ n (to, for) +‎ .f (him), thus literally ‘one for whom (there is) not (something) for him’.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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D35
t y
nDsn
f
A1

 m

  1. one who has nothing, one of the have-nots, dispossessed person, poor person
    Synonyms: jwtj-sw, jwtj.f

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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References

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  • jw.tj-n⸗f (lemma ID 22090)”, 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 46.8
  • 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 138.