mdw-rḫyt
Egyptian
Etymology
mdw (“staff, custodian”) + rḫyt (“common people”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of the common people’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛduː rɛxiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: medu-rekhyt
Noun
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- a title: ‘staff of the common people’ [chiefly Old Kingdom]
Inflection
Declension of mdw-rḫyt (masculine)
| singular | mdw-rḫyt |
|---|---|
| dual | mdwwj-rḫyt |
| plural | mdww-rḫyt |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-rḫyt
References
- “mdw-rḫ.yt (lemma ID 450602)”, 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
- Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 1698, pages 453–454
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 178.12, 447.17
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