mswt-nbt-ḥwt
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Egyptian
Etymology
mswt (“birth”) + nbt-ḥwt (“Nephthys”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘birth(day) of Nephthys’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛsuːt nɛbɛt huːt/
- Conventional anglicization: mesut-nebet-hut
Proper noun
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- The fifth and last of the five epagomenal (intercalary) days (djw ḥrjw rnpt) added to the end of the year in the ancient Egyptian calendar.
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 107.