The story
- Egyptian · derived fromjj-m-ḥtp
- English todayImhotep
From Egyptian jj-m-ḥtp (literally “(the one) coming in peace, (the one) returning home safely”): M18-G17-R4:X1*Q3 from the perfective active participle of jj (“to come, to return”) + m ḥtp (“in peace, safely”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.