mdwt

mdwj +‎ -t.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: medut

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1. words, speech, things said [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. words, text, things written
3. words constituting the contents of something specified; wording, text (of a command, letter, etc.)
4. language, manner of speech [since the Amarna Period]
5. (of the heart/mind) thoughts, words thought internally [Middle Kingdom and Late Egyptian]
6. (law) plea
7. matter, affair, issue (+ genitive: of, concerning (someone or something)) [since the Middle Kingdom]

   ― wḥm mdwt ― to give an account of an issue

8. (with following term) forms abstract nouns; -ness [Greco-Roman Period]
9. used as a generic object for certain verbs such as wḏ (“to command”) and wḏꜥ (“to judge”)

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

• Demotic: mt
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲛ̄ⲧ- (mn̄t-)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧ- (met-)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧ- (met-)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙⲛ̄ⲧ- (mn̄t-)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲛ̄ⲧ- (mn̄t-)

• “mdw.t (lemma ID 78030)”, 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 181.7–182.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122