nmtt

Egyptian
FWOTD – 15 July 2020

Etymology

nmt (“to stride over, traverse”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

Noun
n&nm&m t t
D54

 f

  1. stride, march, walking [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. manner of stepping or walking; gait, stride
    • c. 2061–2010 BCE, Stela of Irtisen (Louvre C14), lines 9–10:
      iwr
      x
      Y1      		 k
      w      		 Sm
      t      		 t
      w      		 H_SPACE
      t      		 A53D54
      t
      Z1
      B24
      a
      xrp
      a      		 [sic]wnw
      Z1      		 AZ1
      H_SPACE      		 mD
      Z1
      jw(.j) rḫ.kw šmt twt nmtt rpwt ꜥḥꜥw nw ꜣ mḏw-wꜥ
      I know the gait of a male figure, the stride of a female figure, and the stances of the eleven birds.
  3. goings, journeys, travels, course
    • Reign of Senusret III, c. 1878–1839 BCE, Stela of Ikhernofret (Berlin ÄM 1204), lines 18–19:
      iwir
      n      		 A1pr
      r
      t      		 aA
      t      		 SmsA1nTrr
      D54 Z2ss
      f      		 D37
      n      		 A1sP11P1nTrd
      p t      		 P3G26Hr
      Z1      		 U5
      a      		 [[sqdd
      N33C      		 ]]w&tP1
      Z2
      jw jr.n.j prt-ꜥꜣt šms.j nṯr r nmtt.f dj.n.j sqd dpt-nṯr ḏḥwtj ḥr mꜣꜥ [sqd]wt
      I undertook the Great Procession, following the god at his travels; I made the god’s boat sail, with Thoth directing the sailing.
  4. procedure, course of proceeding or action

Usage notes

Often found in parallel with šmt.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nmtt  
nmmt
t		 D54
Z2ss
nmt
t		 D54 D54
D54
D54
t Z1
D54
t Z2ss
D54 D54
D54
nmtt nmtt nmtt nmtt nmtt
[since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom]
abbreviation abbreviation abbreviation

References
  • “nmt.t (lemma ID 84510)”, 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 271.1–271.18
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 133–134
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