mdwt nfrt

Egyptian

Etymology

mdt (“word, speech”) +‎ nfrt, feminine of nfr (“good, fine, beautiful”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːtʼat ˈnafɾat/ → /ˈmaːtʼaʔ ˈnafɾaʔ/ → /ˈmoːtʼə ˈnofɾə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːtʼat ˈnafɾat/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːtʼaʔ ˈnafɾaʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmoːtʼə ˈnofɾə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛdɛt nɛfɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: medet neferet

Noun

 f

1. literature

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 244.