Egyptian
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Etymology 1
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From mdwj ( “ to speak ” ) .
Pronunciation
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m
spoken word
words , speech , things said
― sꜥr mdw ― to convey (someone’s) words (+ n : to (a superior))
words , text , things written
command , order , instruction
magic word , spell
( law ) plea
used as a generic object for certain verbs such as wḏ ( “ to command ” ) and wḏꜥ ( “ to judge ” )
Usage notes
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This word was displaced by mdwt from Late Egyptian on, though in some cases the replacement may have been purely graphic.
Unlike most u-stems, the noun-forming suffix -w was usually written in mdw .
Inflection
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Declension of mdw (masculine u-stem)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdwtj
[Old Kingdom]
[Old Kingdom]
[18th Dynasty]
[18th Dynasty]
uncommon
uncommon
uncommon
The word may be written without determinatives , or with any of the following:
Determinatives used with mdw
[Old Kingdom]
[Middle Kingdom]
[New Kingdom]
[New Kingdom]
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Demotic: mdt , md
( from the plural ) ⇒ Coptic: ⲙⲧⲁⲩ ( mtau )
Etymology 2
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m
staff , rod
staff as a weapon
staff as a kind of scepter , staff of authority , baton ; also given as a grave good
sacred staff with the head of a god , revered as a symbol of a particular god or nome [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]
used in various titles : custodian , attendant , maintainer
Inflection
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Declension of mdw (masculine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
[Old Kingdom]
[Old Kingdom]
[Old Kingdom]
uncommon
uncommon
uncommon
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw
mdw
mdw
mdw
mtw
mdw
mḏ
[Middle Kingdom]
[Middle Kingdom]
[New Kingdom]
[Late Period]
[Greco-Roman Period]
[Greco-Roman Period]
uncommon
in hieratic
uncommon
Derived terms
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References
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“mdw (lemma ID 78150) ”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae [1] , 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
“mdw (lemma ID 78130) ”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae [2] , 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 [3] , volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN , pages 178.1–178.14, 180.4–180.12
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962 ) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN , page 122
Černý, Jaroslav (1976 ) Coptic Etymological Dictionary , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN , page 94
^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995 ) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN , pages 36, 58