rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

rnpt (“year”) +‎ mḏd (“driving in, striking true, staying true to”) +‎ ꜥ (“arm”) in two direct genitive constructions, thus perhaps ‘year of the driving in of the arm’(?). The exact sense of mḏd intended here is unclear.

Pronunciation

  • (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /rɛnpɛt mɛd͡ʒɛd ɑː/
    • Conventional anglicization: renpet-medjed-a

Noun
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  1. year of hardship, distress, need [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ (masculine)
singular rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ
dual rnptj-mḏd-ꜥ
plural rnpwt-mḏd-ꜥ

References

  • “mḏd-ꜥ (lemma ID 78820)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 192.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124
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