mdt

See also: MDT and mḏt

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw +‎ -t.

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmaːtʼat/ → /ˈmaːtʼaʔ/ → /ˈmoːtʼə/

Noun

 f

  1. word (written or spoken)
  2. a speech
  3. the text of a command
  4. speech (faculty) [since the Amarna Period]
  5. ‘word of the heart’; thought [Middle Kingdom, Late Egyptian]
  6. matter, affair, issue [since the Middle Kingdom]
  7. Used as a generic object for certain verbs, e.g. wḏ, wḏꜥ.

Usage notes

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

Inflection
Declension of mdt (feminine u-stem)
singular mdt
dual mdtj
plural mdwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdt  


mdt mdt mdt mdt mdw
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [21st Dynasty] [Greco-Roman Period]
in papyri in papyri
Determinatives used with mdt  
[since the Old Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Demotic: mt

References
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57
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