mdw-nṯr

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Egyptian

Etymology

From mdw (“word”) +‎ nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the god’s word’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌmaːtʼaw ˈnaːcaɾ/ → /ˌmaːtʼaw ˈnaːtaʔ/ → /ˌmaːtʼə ˈnaːta/ → /ˌmoːtʼ ˈnoːtə/

Noun

nTrmd

 m

  1. sacred literature traditionally written in hieroglyphic writing
    mDAt
    t Z1    		 arq
    Z2    		 n
    t    		 nTrmdZ3
     ― mḏꜣwt n(w)t mdw-nṯr ― books of sacred writings
  2. Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
    Synonym: zẖꜣw-mdw-nṯr
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mdw,‎ nṯr.

Inflection

Declension of mdw-nṯr (masculine)
singular
nTrmd

mdw-nṯr
dual
nTrmdy

mdwj-nṯr
plural
nTrmdZ3

mdw-nṯr

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-nṯr  
nTrmdY1
mdG7
nTrmdmdmd
nTrmdY1
Z2
nTrmddwA2
nTrmdZ3
nTrmdZ1
Z2ss
nTrmdarq
Z2
nTrmdarq
Z1
mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr mdw-nṯr

Derived terms

References

  • “mdw-nṯr (lemma ID 78190)”, 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 180.13–181.6
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
  • L. H. Lesko (1972) The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways, University of California Press, p. 64.
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