A borrowing from Semitic; compare Hebrew מִנְחָה (minḥā, “gift offering, afternoon prayer”), Arabic مِنْحَة (minḥa, “gift”), Phoenician 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤕 (mnḥt), Ge'ez መሐና (mäḥäna).
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- (Late Egyptian) gift, tribute
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnḥtj
- → Ancient Greek: θαλλός (thallós, “gift”) (semantic loan)
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 84.11
- Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 128