ḏḥwtj-ms

Egyptian

Etymology

ḏḥwtj (“Thoth”) +‎ ms (“to give birth”) +‎ (.w) (masculine third-person singular stative ending), thus ‘Thoth is born’.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed Middle Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʼaˈħawtij ˈmissaw/
(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛhuːti mɛs/
- Conventional anglicization: djehuti-mes

Proper noun

m

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Tuthmosis III, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty

References

Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN

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