mḏw
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Egyptian
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| Cardinal: mḏw Ordinal: mḥ-mḏw Adverbial: mḏw zpw Distributive: mḏw mḏw Fractional: r mḏw | ||||
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic. Compare Proto-Berber *măraw (whence Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵔⴰⵡ (mraw)) and Proto-Chadic *gʷam- (with metathesis, if not borrowed from Niger-Congo), whence Hausa gōmà.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmuːcʼaw/ → /ˈmuːtʼaw/ → /ˈmuːtʼə/ → /meːtʼ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛd͡ʒuː/
- Conventional anglicization: medju
Numeral
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Inflection
Declension of mḏw
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| singular | mḏw |
mḏt |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Coptic: ⲙⲏⲧ (mēt)
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 102.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN