jpt-swt

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ipɛt suːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ipet-sut

Proper noun

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1. the temple of Karnak

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jpt-swt  

jpt-swt	jpt-swt	jpt-st	jpt-swt	jpt-swt
			[18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• jmn-m-jpt-swt

 

Descendants

• Demotic: jp-s.wt, jp-s.t.w

References

• “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.