jt-šmꜥ
Egyptian
Etymology
jt (“barley”) + šmꜥ (“Upper Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction. Allen instead apparently considers the second element a nisba adjective, *šmꜥj (“Upper Egyptian”), with unwritten weak j.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /it ʃɛmɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: it-shema
Noun
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- Upper Egyptian barley
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 214.