st-r-mḏd
Egyptian
Etymology
st (“shooting”) + r (“in order to”) + mḏd (“hit the mark”), thus ‘(one) who shoots to hit’, i.e. ‘one who shoots unerringly’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛt ɛr mɛd͡ʒɛd/
- Conventional anglicization: set-er-medjed
References
- “st-r-mḏd (lemma ID 861649)”, 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 191.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124
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