mdwt

Egyptian

Etymology

mdwj +‎ -t.

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmaːtʼat/ → /ˈmaːtʼaʔ/ → /ˈmaːtʼa/ → /ˈmoːtʼə/

Noun
mdd
t		 A2

 f

  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]
    wHmmA2mdd
    t    		 A2
     ― 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”)

Usage notes

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

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdwt  
mdd
t
mdd
t		 Y1
mdd
t		 A2
mdd
t		 A2Z3
mdt
Y1
mdd
t Z5		 A2
mdd
t y		 A2
mdmdmd
mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwt mdwtj mdw
[since the Old Kingdom] [since the Old Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [21st Dynasty] [Greco-Roman Period]
in hieratic in hieratic

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Demotic: mt

References
  • “mdw.t (lemma ID 78030)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, 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
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57
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