dwꜣ-mwt.f

Egyptian

as a jar containing a mummy’s stomach

Etymology

A direct genitive construction meaning “the praise of his mother”, composed of dwꜣ (“to praise”) +‎ mwt (“mother”) +‎ .f (third person masculine singular suffix pronoun).

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˌtʼawaʀˈmuwtif/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /duːɑ muːtʔɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: dua-mut.ef

Proper noun

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1. Duamutef, a mortuary god, protector of the stomach of the deceased.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dwꜣ-mwt.f  

dwꜣ-mwt.f	dwꜣ-mwt.f

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN