mḏt

See also: mdt and MDT

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛd͡ʒɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: medjet

Noun

 f m

1. ointment or oil in general
2. a particular kind of ointment

Inflection

Original feminine inflection:

Declension of mḏt (feminine)

singular	mḏt
dual	mḏtj
plural	mḏwt

In the Greco-Roman Period this word becomes masculine instead:

Declension of mḏt (masculine)

singular	mḏt
dual	mḏtwj
plural	mḏtw

Alternative forms

After the preposition m this word is usually written without the initial consonant, as ḏt. Since the 18th Dynasty, such a writing occasionally appears even when there is no preceding preposition m.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḏt  

ḏt	ḏt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 185.11–185.19
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 123