msdmt
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From m- (noun-forming prefix) + sdm (“makeup; to put on makeup”) + -t (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /misˈtʼuːmit/ → /misˈtʼuːmiʔ/ → /məsˈtʼuːma/ → /məsˈtʼeːmə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛsdɛmɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: mesdemet
Noun[edit]
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- a black mineral pigment used as eye makeup and in medicinal preparations for treating eye disease; mesdemet
- the mineral material from which this pigment is made, as used for making small cultic images and other objects [New Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic forms of the phonetic component of msdmt
Alternative determinatives of msdmt
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “msdm.t (lemma ID 76190)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 153.8–153.15
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 118