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Egyptian
Etymology
th (“(one) transgressing, violating, deviating from”) + mtn (“way, road, path”), thus literally ‘one deviating from the path’. This term is not attested with the older writing of mtn, namely mṯn.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- transgressor, wrongdoer, one who violates one’s social obligations
- (with following genitive) one who is disloyal, rebellious, insubordinate against (someone), one who violates one’s social obligations to (another)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of th-mtn
References
- “th-mṯn (lemma ID 172940)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 320.14–320.15
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
