mḥ-tꜣ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mht"

Egyptian

Etymology

From mḥ (“cubit”) +‎ tꜣ (“land”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘a cubit of land’; since land was parcelled into strips of 1 by 100 cubits, one such strip of 100 square cubits was considered ‘a cubit of land’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛh tɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: meh-ta

Noun

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1. a centaroura, a measure of area equivalent to one hundredth of a sṯꜣt (“aroura”) or 100 square mḥw (“cubits”) (about 0.0028 hectares).

Inflection

Declension of mḥ-tꜣ (masculine)

singular	mḥ-tꜣ
dual	mḥwj-tꜣ
plural	mḥw-tꜣ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥ-tꜣ  

mḥ-tꜣ

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 105.
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN