mṯn

See also: MTN and mtn.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun
mT
n		 N31

 m

  1. way, road, path (+ genitive: leading to (a place), followed by (a person)) [since the Old Kingdom]
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:
      N31
      t Z1      		 z
      S
      Z9 D54      		 tiim&a T
      n
      nw      		 wZ2ss
      H_SPACE      		 wn
      O31
      wꜣt zš.tj mṯnw wn(.w)
      The road is traversable, the paths are open.
  2. course, path, trajectory (of the stars in the sky, etc.)
  3. way of leading one’s life, particularly the right way

Inflection
Declension of mṯn (masculine)
singular mṯn
dual mṯnwj
plural mṯnw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mṯn  
miiN31
t Z1
mjt
[Late Period]

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲉⲓⲧ (maeit)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲱⲓⲧ (mōit)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲓⲧ (mait)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲉⲓⲧ (moeit)

Noun
ma
T
n		 T14G41A1

 m

  1. guide or scout along a path [Middle Kingdom and 19th Dynasty]
  2. sheikh, leader of a band of desert nomads or bedouins

Inflection
Declension of mṯn (masculine)
singular mṯn
dual mṯnwj
plural mṯnw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mṯn  
m&a t
n		 T14G41A1
m&a t
n		 nwWrdD54
mtn mtn
[Middle Kingdom] [19th Dynasty]

References
  • “mṯn (lemma ID 77960)”, 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
  • “mṯn (lemma ID 77970)”, 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, pages 176.1–176.10
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 230.
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