mḏd mṯn

Egyptian

Etymology

mḏd (“to stay true to”) +‎ mṯn (“road”).

Pronunciation
  • (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛd͡ʒɛd mɛt͡ʃɛn/
    • Conventional anglicization: medjed metjen

Verb
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 compound

  1. to be loyal or obedient (+ genitive: to (someone)) [since the Middle Kingdom]
    Synonym: mḏd wꜣt

References
  • “mḏd (mṯn) (lemma ID 78840)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 192.5
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124
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