From mdw (“word”) + nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the god’s word’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌmaːtʼaw ˈnaːcaɾ/ → /ˌmaːtʼaw ˈnaːtaʔ/ → /ˌmaːtʼə ˈnaːta/ → /ˌmoːtʼ ˈnoːtə/
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- sacred literature traditionally written in hieroglyphic writing
- ― mḏꜣwt n(w)t mdw-nṯr ― books of sacred writings
- Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
- Synonym: zẖꜣw-mdw-nṯr
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mdw, nṯr.
Declension of mdw-nṯr (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-nṯr
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- “mdw-nṯr (lemma ID 78190)”, 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, pages 180.13–181.6
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
- L. H. Lesko (1972) The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways, University of California Press, p. 64.