mjzt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mizɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: mizet

Noun

 f

1. liver (of a human or animal)
   • c. 1800 BCE, Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (UC 32057), page 1, line 5:

     rḏj.ḫr.k wnm.s mjst nt ꜥꜣ wꜣḏt

     You should have her eat a fresh ass liver.

Inflection

Declension of mjzt (feminine)

singular	mjzt
dual	mjztj
plural	mjzwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mjzt  

mzt

[Old Kingdom]

Descendants

• Demotic: mws
  • Old Coptic: ⲙⲁⲟⲩⲥⲉ (maouse)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 44.11–44.14