mḏt
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Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛd͡ʒɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: medjet
Noun
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f m
Inflection
Original feminine inflection:
In the Greco-Roman Period this word becomes masculine instead:
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.
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, 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