mdw-ḥp

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw (“staff, custodian”) +‎ ḥp (“Apis”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of Apis’.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. a priestly title: ‘herdsman of Apis’ [Old and Middle Kingdoms]

Inflection

Declension of mdw-ḥp (masculine)
singular mdw-ḥp
dual mdwwj-ḥp
plural mdww-ḥp

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-ḥp  


mdw-ḥp mdw-ḥp mdw-ḥp

References

  • “mdw-ḥp (lemma ID 450708)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
  • 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, § 1699, page 454
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 178.14
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