mwt
Egyptian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Likely a babble word in origin, like many of its Afroasiatic parallels.[1] Militarev and Stolbova derive it from a supposed Proto-Afroasiatic form instead, but also note it may be a nursery word.[2] If not, perhaps cognate with Proto-Semitic *ʔimm-.
Pronunciation edit
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmiʔwat/ → /ˈmiʔwaʔ/ → /ˈmeʔwə/ → /ˈmeʔw/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /muːt/
- Conventional anglicization: mut
Noun edit
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f
- mother
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.11–1.12:
- ḫr (tw)r n(j) ḥr r dfꜣ jb jmꜣ n.f kꜣhs r mwt.f
- One who is averted of face against feeding the heart (i.e. one who doesn’t indulge himself), the harsh man has to be more kindly to him than his (own) mother.
Inflection edit
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Demotic: mwt
Proper noun edit
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f
- (Egyptian mythology) the primordial waters [Old Kingdom]
- Mut, the vulture goddess worshipped as part of the Theban Triad
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
(Possibly:)
- → Meroitic: 𐦨𐦴 (mt /mata/)
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Afroasiatic *mawVt- (“to die, to kill”). Cognate with Proto-Semitic *mawut-, Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵎⵜ (mmt) and Hausa mutù.
Pronunciation edit
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmaːwat/ → /ˈmaːjaʔ/ → /ˈmaːʔə/ → /ˈmoːʔ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /muːt/
- Conventional anglicization: mut
Verb edit
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3-lit.
- (intransitive) to die
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 122–123:
- šm.k ḥnꜥ.sn r ẖnw m(w)t.k m nwt.k
- You will go home with them, and you will die in your (own) town.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of ships) to sink
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 37–39:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n dpt m(w)t(.tj) ntjw jm.s nj zp wꜥ jm
- Then the boat died, and of those in it, not one of them survived.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to die inside, to despair
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 131–132:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n.j m(w)t.kw n.sn gm.n.j st m ẖꜣyt wꜥt
- Then I died for them, having found them as a single heap of corpses.
Inflection edit
Conjugation of mwt (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: mwt, geminated stem: mwtt
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
mwt |
mwtw, mwt |
mwtt |
mwt |
mwt |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
mwt |
ḥr mwt |
m mwt |
r mwt |
suffix conjugation | |||
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aspect / mood | active | contingent | |
aspect / mood | active | ||
perfect | mwt.n |
consecutive | mwt.jn |
terminative | mwtt | ||
perfective3 | mwt |
obligative1 | mwt.ḫr |
imperfective | mwt | ||
prospective3 | mwt |
potentialis1 | mwt.kꜣ |
subjunctive | mwt |
verbal adjectives | |||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | |
active | active | passive | |
perfect | mwt.n |
— | — |
perfective | mwt |
mwt |
mwt, mwtw5, mwty5 |
imperfective | mwt, mwty, mwtw5 |
mwt, mwtj6, mwty6 |
mwt, mwtw5 |
prospective | mwt, mwttj7 |
mwttj4, mwtt4 | |
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Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
- Demotic: mwt
Noun edit
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m
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 3 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /muːt/
- Conventional anglicization: mut
Noun edit
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f
Inflection edit
References edit
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 97
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- ^ Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 193–195, →ISBN
- ^ Militarev, Alexander and Stolbova, Olga (2007) “*ˀVma/*ma(y)”, in Afroasiatic etymology database at StarLing[1]
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 245: “*/ˈmeʔwat/”
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