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Egyptian
Etymology
rnpt (“year”) + mḏd (“driving in, striking true, staying true to”) + ꜥ (“arm”) in two direct genitive constructions, thus perhaps ‘year of the driving in of the arm’(?). The exact sense of mḏd intended here is unclear.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- year of hardship, distress, need
Inflection
Declension of rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ (masculine)
References
- “mḏd-ꜥ (lemma ID 78820)”, 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, page 192.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124
