mdw-rḫyt

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw (“staff, custodian”) +‎ rḫyt (“common people”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of the common people’.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. a title: ‘staff of the common people’ [chiefly Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of mdw-rḫyt (masculine)
singular mdw-rḫyt
dual mdwwj-rḫyt
plural mdww-rḫyt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-rḫyt  
mdw-rḫyt

References

  • “mdw-rḫ.yt (lemma ID 450602)”, 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
  • Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 1698, pages 453–454
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 178.12, 447.17
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