jwyt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: iuyt

Etymology 1

Other romanization schemes

Manuel de Codage	iwyt
Gardiner 1927	ꞽwyt
Erman & Grapow 1926	ꞽwj·t
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)	ȧuī-t

Noun

 f

1. (elegant speech) house [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. dwelling-place of a god, sanctuary
3. (in the plural) streets, public places collectively
4. quarter of a town

Inflection

Declension of jwyt (feminine)

singular	jwyt
dual	jwytj
plural	jwywt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwyt  

jwt	jwꜣyt	jwꜥyt	jwꜥt	jwt
	[18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]
	in hieratic

Etymology 2

Other romanization schemes

Manuel de Codage	iwyt
Gardiner 1927	ꞽwyt
Erman & Grapow 1926	ꞽwj·t
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)	ȧuī-t

From jw (“wrongdoing”) +‎ -y +‎ -t.

Noun

 f

1. wrongdoing, misconduct, evil [since the Middle Kingdom]

   ― nn jwyt.j ― I am free of wrongdoing. (literally, “There is no wrongdoing of mine.”)

   ― m jw(y)t ― through wrongdoing; wrongfully

   ― ꜥq n jw(y)t ― to fall into wrongdoing

   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:

     jwyt zb(.w) sjw(w) rw.w tꜣ m ḥtpw ẖr nb.f

     Wrongdoing has gone, the Slanderer has departed, and the land is in peace under its lord.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwyt  

jwt	jwt

References

• “jwy.t (lemma ID 22320)” and “jw.yt (lemma ID 22310)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], 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^[3], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 48.11–48.13, 49.5–49.8, 51.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 12
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 243