mḏw

Egyptian
Egyptian numbers (edit)
100
 ←  1  ←  9 𓎆
10		 20  → [a], [b] 100  → 
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    Cardinal: mḏw
    Ordinal: mḥ-mḏw
    Adverbial: mḏw zpw
    Distributive: mḏw mḏw
    Fractional: r mḏw

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic. Compare Proto-Berber *măraw (whence Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵔⴰⵡ (mraw)) and Proto-Chadic *gʷam- (with metathesis, if not borrowed from Niger-Congo), whence Hausa gōmà.

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmuːcʼaw/ → /ˈmuːtʼaw/ → /ˈmuːtʼə/ → /meːtʼ/

Numeral
V20
  1. ten

Inflection
Declension of mḏw
masculine feminine
singular mḏw
 mḏt

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Coptic: ⲙⲏⲧ (mēt)

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 71
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