mdwt

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Egyptian

Etymology

mdwj +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

mdd
t		 A2

 f

  1. words, speech, things said
  2. words, text, things written
  3. words constituting the contents of something specified; wording, text (of a command, letter, etc.)
  4. language, manner of speech
  5. (of the heart/mind) thoughts, words thought internally
  6. (law) plea
  7. matter, affair, issue (+ genitive: of, concerning (someone or something))
    wHmmA2mdd
    t    		 A2
     ― wḥm mdwt ― to give an account of an issue
  8. (with following term) forms abstract nouns; -ness
  9. used as a generic object for certain verbs such as wḏ (“to command”) and wḏꜥ (“to judge”)

Usage notes

This word displaced the earlier mdw almost fully by Late Egyptian.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdwt  
mdd
t
mdd
t		 Y1
mdd
t		 A2
mdd
t		 A2Z3
mdt
Y1
mdd
t Z5		 A2
mdd
t y		 A2
mdmdmd
mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwtj mdw
in hieratic in hieratic

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: mt

References

  • “mdw.t (lemma ID 78030)”, 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 181.7–182.2
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57
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