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Egyptian
Etymology
mdw (“staff, custodian”) + kꜣ (“bull”) + ḥḏ (“white”) with the first two elements in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of the white bull’.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- a priestly title: ‘herdsman of the white bull’
Inflection
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ
References
- “mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ (lemma ID 853131)”, 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
- Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 1701, page 455
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 178.13
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 96.12
