mḏw

Egyptian

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Cardinal: mḏw     Ordinal: mḥ-mḏw     Adverbial: mḏw zpw     Distributive: mḏw mḏw     Fractional: r mḏw

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic. Compare Proto-Berber *măraw (whence Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵔⴰⵡ (mraw)) and Proto-Chadic *gʷam- (with metathesis, if not borrowed from Niger-Congo), whence Hausa gōmà.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːcʼaw/ → /ˈmuːtʼaw/ → /ˈmuːtʼə/ → /meːtʼ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːcʼaw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːtʼaw/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːtʼə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /meːtʼ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛd͡ʒuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: medju

Numeral

1. ten

Inflection

Declension of mḏw

	masculine	feminine
singular	mḏw	mḏt

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣ-n-mḏw
• mḏwtj

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲙⲏⲧ (mēt)

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN