Egyptian
Etymology 1
Compare Beja mari (“side, direction”). Suffixed with -t (feminine ending). Related to mrj (“to run aground, to strand (a ship)”), but most likely this verb was derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- shore or riverbank with a natural embankment or levee [since the Middle Kingdom]
- a landing place for ships on shore; wharf, quay [since the Middle Kingdom]
- harbor [chiefly since Late Egyptian]
Inflection
Declension of mryt (feminine)
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mryt
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mrytj
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mrywt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mryt
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mrw
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mrw
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mry
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mryt
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[Middle Kingdom]
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Černý considers this a variant of
mrw (“desert”) rather than mryt.
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Descendants
- Demotic Egyptian: mrt, mr
- Coptic: ⲙⲣⲱ (mrō) (Sahidic), ⲉⲙⲣⲱ (emrō) (Bohairic)
- → Egyptian Arabic: دَمْرُوء (Damrūʔ)
- → Ancient Greek: Μάρεια (Máreia), Μᾰρεῶτῐς (Măreôtĭs)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
- a female given name, Meryt
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 109.3, 109.12–110.3
- Takács, Gábor (2007), Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 410, →ISBN
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976), Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 88
- Hoch, James (1997), Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 83