mḏt

See also: mdt and MDT

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

 f m

  1. ointment or oil in general
  2. a particular kind of ointment

Inflection

Original feminine inflection:

Declension of mḏt (feminine)
singular mḏt
dual mḏtj
plural mḏwt

In the Greco-Roman Period this word becomes masculine instead:

Declension of mḏt (masculine)
singular mḏt
dual mḏtwj
plural mḏtw

Alternative forms

After the preposition m this word is usually written without the initial consonant, as ḏt. Since the 18th Dynasty, such a writing occasionally appears even when there is no preceding preposition m.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḏt  

ḏt ḏt

References

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