Egyptian
Etymology
From m- (noun-forming prefix) + sdm (“makeup; to put on makeup”) + -t (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /misˈtʼuːmit/ → /misˈtʼuːmiʔ/ → /məsˈtʼuːma/ → /məsˈtʼeːmə/
Noun
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- a black mineral pigment used as eye makeup and in medicinal preparations for treating eye disease; mesdemet
- the mineral material from which this pigment is made, as used for making small cultic images and other objects [New Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
Declension of msdmt (feminine)
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msdmt
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msdmtj
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msdmwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic forms of the phonetic component of msdmt
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msdt
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msdmt
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msdmt
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msdmt
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msḏmt
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msdmt
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Alternative determinatives of msdmt
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also used as an abbreviation
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Descendants
- Demotic: mstm, mstme.t, smṱ
- >? Bohairic Coptic: ⲉⲥⲑⲏⲙ (esthēm)
- >? Sahidic Coptic: ⲥⲧⲏⲙ (stēm)
References
- “msdm.t (lemma ID 76190)”, 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 153.8–153.15
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 118