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Egyptian
Etymology
ḏd (“to say”) + mdw (“speech, words”), with ḏd in the infinitive.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌcʼaːtʼ maˈtʼuww/ → /ˌt͡ʃʼaːʔ maˈtʼuww/ → /t͡ʃʼəməˈtʼuww/ → /t͡ʃʼəməˈtʼøww/
Noun
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- (singular only) recitation (+ jn or (since the 19th Dynasty) n: by; + ḥr: about; + ḫft: when doing); used as a title to introduce various kinds of text to be recited
- introduces the words spoken by a particular god in temple inscriptions, monuments, and old religious texts
- c. 1450 BCE, The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III: Part I, Cairo Museum 34010:[1]
- ḏd-mdw jn jmn-rꜥ nb-nswt-tꜣwj
- A recitation by Amun-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands.
- introduces the main bulk of a religious spell or utterance, after any prologues
- introduces a line of text in general in some collections of religious utterances
- introduces the name of a god, without any following text to be recited
- (uncommon) written in place of omitted text; ‘the usual (words to recite)’
- (rare, only attested in a single manuscript) introduces explanatory glosses to a text
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ḏd, mdw.
Usage notes
This term may be followed immediately by ḏd to indicate that the following text is to be recited without interruption after the preceding one, or by zp and a number to indicate how many times the following text is to be recited.
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Descendants
References
- “ḏd-mdw (lemma ID 186050)” and “ḏd (mdw) (lemma ID 852969)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 180.8–180.10
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 625.3–626.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 325
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 169.
