jꜣt-wꜥbt

Egyptian

Etymology

jꜣt (“mound”) +‎ wꜥbt (feminine of wꜥb (“clean, pure”)), thus literally ‘pure mound’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑt wɑːbɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: iat-wabet

Noun

f

any one of the many cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried, most commonly the site on Bigeh

Inflection

Declension of jꜣt-wꜥbt (feminine)

singular	jꜣt-wꜥbt
dual	jꜣtj-wꜥbtj
plural	jꜣwt-wꜥbwt

References

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 26.14
Helck, Wolfgang; Otto, Eberhard (1975) Lexikon der Ägyptologie, volume 1: A – Ernte, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 1

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