Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- way, road, path (+ genitive: leading to (a place), followed by (a person)) [since the Old Kingdom]
c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE,
Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:
- wꜣt zš.tj mṯnw wn(.w)
- The road is traversable, the paths are open.
- course, path, trajectory (of the stars in the sky, etc.)
- way of leading one’s life, particularly the right way
Inflection
Declension of mṯn (masculine)
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mṯn
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mṯnwj
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mṯnw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mṯn
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲉⲓⲧ (maeit)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲱⲓⲧ (mōit)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲓⲧ (mait)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲉⲓⲧ (moeit)
Noun
m
- guide or scout along a path [Middle Kingdom and 19th Dynasty]
- sheikh, leader of a band of desert nomads or bedouins
Inflection
Declension of mṯn (masculine)
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mṯn
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| dual
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mṯnwj
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| plural
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mṯnw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mṯn
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| mtn
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mtn
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[19th Dynasty]
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References
- “mṯn (lemma ID 77960)” and “mṯn (lemma ID 77970)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 176.1–176.10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 230.