Egyptian
Etymology
mdw + -t.
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- word (written or spoken)
- a speech
- the text of a command
- speech (faculty) [since the Amarna Period]
- ‘word of the heart’; thought [Middle Kingdom, Late Egyptian]
- matter, affair, issue [since the Middle Kingdom]
- Used as a generic object for certain verbs, e.g. wḏ, wḏꜥ.
Usage notes
This word displaced the earlier mdw almost fully by Late Egyptian.
Inflection
Declension of mdwt (feminine u-stem)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdwt
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mdt
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mdt
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mdt
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mdt
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mdw
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[New Kingdom]
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[New Kingdom]
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[21st Dynasty]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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in papyri
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in papyri
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Determinatives used with
mdt
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[since the Old Kingdom]
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: mt
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩϯ (mouti)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧ- (met-)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲛⲧ- (mnt-)
References
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57