ꜥt-jwf

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜥt (room) + jwf (meat) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘chamber of meat’.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. slaughterhouse, abattoir, meat larder

Inflection

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References

  • ꜥ.t-jwf (lemma ID 34610)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 52.5, 160.3
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 37
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