mḏd mṯn

Egyptian

Etymology

mḏd (“to stay true to”) +‎ mṯn (“road”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛd͡ʒɛd mɛt͡ʃɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: medjed metjen

Verb

 compound

1. to be loyal or obedient (+ genitive: to (someone)) [since the Middle Kingdom]

   Synonym: mḏd wꜣt

References

• “mḏd (mṯn) (lemma ID 78840)”, 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, page 192.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124