mnjt

Egyptian

Other romanization schemes

Manuel de Codage	mnit
Gardiner 1927	mnꞽt
Erman & Grapow 1926	mnj·t
Lepsius 1874 (obsolete)	menȧ-t

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛnit/
  • Conventional anglicization: menit

Noun

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1. a heavy beaded necklace and musical instrument with a crescent-shaped plate in the front and a keyhole-shaped amuletic counterweight in the rear, considered sacred to Hathor; menat-necklace
2. the keyhole-shaped counterweight of such a necklace

Inflection

Declension of mnjt (feminine)

singular	mnjt
dual	mnjtj
plural	mnjwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnjt  

mnjt

Descendants

• → English: menat

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 75.18–76.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 108