msdmt

Egyptian

Etymology

From m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ sdm (“makeup; to put on makeup”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /misˈtʼuːmit/ → /misˈtʼuːmiʔ/ → /məsˈtʼuːma/ → /məsˈtʼeːmə/

Noun
mssdmt
N33C
Z2ss

 f

  1. a black mineral pigment used as eye makeup and in medicinal preparations for treating eye disease; mesdemet
  2. the mineral material from which this pigment is made, as used for making small cultic images and other objects [New Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection
Declension of msdmt (feminine)
singular msdmt
dual msdmtj
plural msdmwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic forms of the phonetic component of msdmt  
msd
t
H_SPACE
s		 md
t
H_SPACE
s		 mdmt
mssdmt
msdmwtt
msDmwtt
mssd
im
t
msdt msdt msdmt msdmt msdmt msḏmt msdmt
[Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom]
Alternative determinatives of msdmt  
N33C
N33C N33C
N33C
Z2ss
D7
also used as an abbreviation
for the word

Descendants
  • Demotic: mstm, mstme.t, smṱ

References
  • “msdm.t (lemma ID 76190)”, 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 153.8–153.15
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 118
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