mdw-jꜣw

Egyptian

FWOTD – 19 March 2018

Etymology

mdw (“staff”) +‎ jꜣw (“old age”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘staff of old age’.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. a son who assumes the duties of his aged father, allowing the father to remain in office, supported by his son, who carries out the father’s responsibilities as deputy [Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Ptahhotep (pPrisse/pBN 186–194) lines 5.2–5.3:








      wḏ.t(w) n bꜣk jm jrt mdw-jꜣw jḫ ḏd.j n.f mdw sḏmyw sḫrw jmjw-ḥꜣt pꜣw sḏm n nṯrw
      May your humble servant (i.e. the father) be commanded to make his son his deputy (literally, “a staff of old age”); then I will tell him the words of the listeners, the advice of ancestors who once listened to the gods.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-jꜣw  

mdw-jꜣw mdw n jꜣw mdw-jꜣw
18th Dynasty 18th Dynasty

References

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