mdw-nṯr

mdw (“word”) +‎ nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the god’s word’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduː nɛt͡ʃɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: medu-netjer

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1. sacred literature traditionally written in hieroglyphic writing

   ― mḏꜣwt n(w)t mdw-nṯr ― books of sacred writings

2. Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

   Synonym: zẖꜣw-mdw-nṯr

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mdw,‎ nṯr.

• “mdw-nṯr (lemma ID 78190)”, 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 180.13–181.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
• L. H. Lesko (1972) The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways, University of California Press, p. 64.